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What Needs to Change for Your Confidence to Flourish? We often ask ourselves, “How can I become more confident?” But perhaps that is not the right question. Perhaps the better question is: “What needs to change in my life for my confidence to flourish?” Confidence is not simply a thought we create in our minds. …

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The Experience of the Self: The Lesson We Are Here to Learn Perhaps the greatest lesson we are here to learn is not about the world around us. Perhaps it is about ourselves. We spend our lives experiencing the world through the lens of the self. We experience love, rejection, success, failure, joy, pain, belonging, …

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Chapter Ten – Gratitude

Chapter Ten – Gratitude Looking Back and Seeing the Whole Story The years had continued to pass. Daniel was now sixty. Emma was fifty-seven. The children had grown. Noah had a family of his own. Lily had children too. The family that had once gathered around one small table now gathered around a much larger …

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Chapter Nine – Giving Back

Chapter Nine – Giving Back What We Do With What We Have Received The old oak tree was still standing. Daniel was now forty-five. Emma was forty-two. Their parents, David and Sarah, had become older and slower. Grandma Margaret had passed away some years earlier, leaving behind photographs, recipes, stories and a lifetime of memories. …

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Chapter Eight – The Becoming

Chapter Eight – The Becoming The Next Generation The years had passed again. Daniel was thirty-six. Emma was thirty-three. The children who had once sat beneath the old oak tree listening to Grandpa’s stories were now parents themselves. Daniel had a son, Noah. Emma had a daughter, Lily. And suddenly, the family story looked different. …

Chapter Seven – The Purpose

Chapter Seven – The Purpose What Will We Do With the Life We Have Been Given? The years continued to pass. Daniel was now twenty-eight. Emma was twenty-five. The little boy and little girl who had once played beneath the old oak tree were now adults. They had careers. Relationships. Responsibilities. Dreams. Disappointments. And lives …