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I read this post and I think how much has changed and yet how much remains the same. I still struggle with the monsters of failure and success. I wonder now how to dance with these monsters of fear - maybe figuring out that they are not always monsters and may be friends. Maybe it is time to make friends with my monsters.
I have to say of late I have been struggling with the monster of scarcity. I am seeking ways to earn more income and that is both exciting on the one hand and very challenging on the other. I wonder how to get started with being more entrepreneurial. I have done some freelance writing which I enjoy but the jobs I have taken pay too little to be viable. I wonder about how to market myself and put myself out there. I think about writing a book. I dance with this fear of scarcity and although lately it has felt more like a fight with me on the losing end.
Another thing that strikes me is how much in 2010 I wanted to dive deep and put down roots. In many ways I did that and in others I didn't. Now I am in a place, in a job that I know ends in a year. What does putting down roots mean in this context? How am I both fully here and looking ahead to what's next? Again the paradoxes abound - it is not just one thing or another - it is this and that and another.
I am still struggling to embrace the monsters, to ride them all the way down and to live authentically. So the dance with my
What are your monsters? Are they new ones or old ones?
How are you learning to embrace them and make them your friends?
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