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It’s Been a Long Time… a really long time
11 December 2008I don’t think I can jump back into the blogging world after an almost six-month hiatus without some sort of an explanation. After all, in the blogging world, if you miss a day or a week, you are really behind. Six months, well, you might as well have… died!
Anyway, here’s the short of it… at the end of July we moved across country and after 14 years of not living here… we came home to beautiful San Diego, California.
And yes, it is GOOD to be home!
Then, at the end of August I started a new job working as a lawyer. It seemed like the most practical thing to do since we would be starting all over again in California - a long way from New Jersey.
Anyway, I recently received an e-mail from a lawyer/mediator colleague that had purchased the Mediation Business & Marketing Success System and had been one of the early participants in our practice building action groups… and he had been inspired and influenced in a positive way by the work I had put together.
And I didn’t realize it at the time, or even last week when I received the e-mail, but I’m realizing it right now… that in my renewed search to have meaning and purpose in my life, I had, at least in a very small way, made a positive contribution to at least one person. And that, in ways large and small, is what I want my life to be about.
So, thank you.
I’m going to jump back into the world of blogging because it is something that brings me pleasure. And I am silencing the cynical voices and the critical voices.
I was struck by this explanation of idealism and realism by Tal Ben-Shahar in his book, Happier: Learn the Secrets of Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
“[W]hen we set realism and idealism in opposition to one another — when we live as though having ideals and dreams were unrealistic and detached — we are allowing a false dichotomy to hold us back. Being an idealist isbeing a realist in the deepest sense — it is being true to our real nature. We are so constituted that we actually need our lives to have meaning. Without a higher purpose, a calling, an ideal, we cannot attain our full potential for happiness. While I am not advocating dreaming over doing (both are important), there is a significant truth that many realists — rat racers mostly — ignore: to be idealistic is to be realistic.
Never Give Up on your hopes and dreams!
Kristina
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