April 2007

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So much more

April 22, 2007 in Uncategorized | 3 comments |

I want so much more than I have now. 

More time, more chances to love, more courage to seize opportunities, more insight to see the opportunities present. 

My greatest fear: to spend my life and only use a portion of potential. 

At some point, I want to echo the words, “I have learned the secret to be content in any and every situation.”  It seems there’s so much waiting, so many hoops to jump through, so many things to learn. 

The joy is found in the journey, but sometimes the body aches. 

Our little systems

April 16, 2007 in Uncategorized | 3 comments |

 

Our little systems have their day;

They have their day and cease to be:

They are but broken lights of Thee,

And Thou, O Lord, art more than they.

 

- Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam

 

Humbling words when I think I’ve got it all figured out.

Your Ideal Self

April 12, 2007 in Uncategorized | 3 comments |

Famed (or infamous) psychologist Carl Rogers defined the Ideal Self as “the self-concept which the individual would most like to possess, upon which he places the highest value for himself” (Rogers, 1959).  This idea seems reasonable; we all have mental constructs of a seemingly perfect self that embodies our subjective understanding of full humanness.

I’m curious, do you have an ideal self?  What are some of the “self-concepts” upon which you place highest value? 

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