wherever the path leads

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What will it cost you NOT to change?

This is a question I want to return to over the next few weeks, because if we do not change what we're doing then we run the risk of continuing to get the same results we have been, and if those results are not the ones we want, then we run the risk of aging with regret. Of all the forms of suffering I know, when drawn out, this can be one of the greatest.

This is not to say that we cannot make mistakes, I would say that we must. Without mistakes, or at least the willingness to err, we will most likely create very little indeed.

It was to pay the bear in mind that the realisation of potential means different things to different people. Where one values the potential of a simple life another will find drudgery, and where one aspires to realise great feats another sees only unnecessary struggle.

Half the challenge of life would appear to reside in knowing oneself.

The question I wish to ask today is founded in the act of finding out who we and more to the point how do we deal with the fear of getting things wrong, of making mistakes, of taking risks and falling flat on our face? 

Well the question is rhetorical the solution I'd like to offer is not. 

life goes on

Over the last three or four years a phrase has emerged in the groups of people I have been working with. It arose form questions about having a way to approaching uncertainty. It is an invitation that lends itself to a better way of relating to the experience of all that life has to offer. 

It is this...