Walks Within

This time last week I was a completely different person. I mean, I guess on some level we can all say that. In this case, I almost didn't recognize myself. https://walkswithin.com/2020/12/sleep-debt/

Know Thyself is one of inscriptions in the outer court of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Self-reflection is important. Just don't go through the looking glass... https://walkswithin.com//dont-go-through-the-looking-glass/

Congratulations to Liz Davis, winner of our Passion Planner draw! Thank you for your comments, and I look forward to gathering with you when it is safe to do so.

Are we there yet? We are rapidly sliding into the end of the year, and most people I know cannot wait for 2020 to be over. It has definitely been a wild ride, to put it politely. https://walkswithin.com/2020/12/are-we-there-yet-2/

Do ALL the things, just for the sake of doing them, not because you have to excel at them. OK, maybe not ALL the things. Do lots of things! Image text:... Kurt Vonnegut: When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of "getting to know you" questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What's your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don't play any sports. I do theater, I'm in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes. And he went WOW. That's amazing! And I said, "Oh no, but I'm not any good at ANY of them." And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: "I don't think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you've got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them." And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn't been talented enough at anything to excel to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could "Win" at them. See more