Friday 5 April 2013

April 5, 2013 Chautauqua


From the Editor's Computer 

   I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep...  - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

   If you were able to met someone with your exact personality, habits, quirks, spirit, and mannerisms, what would your first impression be?

   Would you be drawn to this person, or would you be repelled?

   Would you want to spend more time with this person, or would you wish to get away from them as quickly as possible?

   Would you be eager to introduce this person to your friends, or would you want to avoid any further contact with them?

   Would you be eager to converse with them, or would you dread what they had to say?

   While we usually spend many hours with other people through jobs, community organizations, family and friends, the one and only person we are always with 24/7 is ourselves.  

   No amount of work, parties, TV, online games, Facebook, sleep, or whatever your favourite distraction may be, will keep you from yourself.  At some point in your life, you will end up alone in a room with only you for company.

   How will you react?

   Just to clarify, this has nothing to do with whether or not you are an introvert or an extrovert and prefer to be alone or with other people.

   Be totally honest...  

   If you don’t like being around you, why would you expect others to like being around you?

   When you are able to sit alone, enjoying your own company and thoughts, then you can begin to share them with others.

   When you become comfortable being truly yourself, alone with yourself, then you start to draw others to you.

   Become a person that others want to be around!  This is far and away the greatest success secret in existence.  A man or woman who has become someone others want to be around holds the world by the tail.   – Andy Andrews

Beth
 
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