Wakw Up Call! – Cringing to Celebrating
Your journey from cringing about qualities that define you to celebrating them is a gift to you and those around you.
A colleague in a large corporation unexpectedly thanked me for having a “kind heart and soul.” I smiled broadly and felt nourished by her words. I remembered how I used to cringe and deflect any comment about being kind. I admired kindness back then but feared it reeked of weakness
Over the years I’ve chosen to stop cringing and embrace kindness as a defining quality of my life.
In place of childhood resentment of my dad’s unfailing kindness is respect, thankfulness and admiration.
Travelling from cringing to celebrating has included a familiar journey for most of us. Kindness toward the failures and shadows of my life open up a river in which kindness can be given, received, sought and celebrated. I am nourished by the strength of kindness.
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CRINGING TO CELEBRATING
Your journey from cringing about qualities that define you to celebrating them is a gift to you and those around you.
A colleague in a large corporation unexpectedly thanked me for having a “kind heart and soul.” I smiled broadly and felt nourished by her words. I remembered how I used to cringe and deflect any comment about being kind. I admired kindness back then but feared it reeked of weakness
Over the years I’ve chosen to stop cringing and embrace kindness as a defining quality of my life.
In place of childhood resentment of my dad’s unfailing kindness is respect, thankfulness and admiration.
Traveling from cringing to celebrating has included a familiar journey for most of us. Kindness toward the failures and shadows of my life open up a river in which kindness can be given, received, sought and celebrated. I am nourished by the strength of kindness.
Call-to-Action:
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Name some beauty about a defining quality of yours that you keep at a distance
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Listen to the words of others who see grace in your qualities
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Give thanks for the quality that you are still trying to embracing
Notice how the journey from cringing to celebrating frees and nourishes you.
Share a story about moving from cringing to celebration here.
Transform Your Life! – cut the drama! Robert on Emotional Mojo
A New Way to Be Human – available at Amazon, B&N and your local Indie book store.
©2014 Robert V. Taylor
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