navigating authenticity
Forget clarifying it to an AI tool. Clarify it to yourself. Make it overtly knowable and usable and improvable. Have you ever considered that maybe more important than learning any technology is learning yourself? To wield what you uniquely offer this world more proactively, consciously, consistently? To PRACTICE it proactively, consciously, consis
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Messy desks and the myth of the perfect workspace
When being real is your priority, the various parts of your life start to groove. Your career will begin to reflect your true passion; your living room will match your values; your friends will fit your soul; and your wealth—of which there are many definitions—will start to measure up with your notion of freedom. Sometimes the courage to be true to
... See moreDanielle LaPorte • The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms
Mighty or discreet, authenticity is the muscle that helps you shake up beliefs, policies, and restraints, and gives you the strength to do the things some say can’t be done. Being genuine is the foundation of integrity—often inconvenient and not always painless—but the only way to go if you’re here to really, truly, fully live.
the flow of our history has moved us into a new age of authenticity. “Authenticity,” as I’ll develop here, is to see ourselves on a journey to make meaning, seeking to be loyal (often only) to what speaks to us, to what engages us, to what moves us.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
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