identity
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Shooting Free Throws

Sometimes growth doesn’t look like change, sometimes it looks like repetition. That is still very much growth, it just shows up a little differently — a little quieter. Yet, in a way, the mundane repetition is a kind of growth stage that cannot be ignored, and serves a person in an exponential way… Continue reading
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Act From Identity, Not For Identity

The common move is to use other people’s responses to us as a permission slip for that behavior. We say a joke, open up in a certain way, act with a level of passion, and then…watch. How did they respond? Did they like that? Is what I did “okay”? We seek permission to be something… Continue reading
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Forget Who You Are And Remember Who You’re Being

The thing about identity is that we typically use the past as a way to identify ourselves rather than the present. We use yesterday’s emotions as the structure for how we should feel today. We use last year’s events as the evidence for how things go for us. We use childhood trauma as the foundation… Continue reading
