It’s important to find a healthy balance between doing what we think we need to do, and being the kind of person we want to be. Most of us tend to focus more at our doing than at our being. We spend our lives trying to make something of ourselves, trying to have an impact, trying to be reasonably successful in this world. We work hard to accomplish our goals and teach our children to do the same. Our culture’s ethos of achievement feeds this focus,
Read more →“How are you?” No, not the social question, but a genuine “How are you? For real. This question, “How are you?” can be challenging to answer for real because we are not used to focusing on who we are, who we are being at any given moment. We are much more accustomed to focusing on and describing what we are doing. ‘ I believe it is important to distinguish between what we are doing ( the “what”, the action) and who we are being (the
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