Self Help And Education Blog

Part Five in the “Coming Into Your Own” Series

Truth exists for each one of us. The key is to find your truth. Too often, we are influenced by the expectations of our parents and culture to define what we consider to be our true nature, or true calling in life.

For many of us, finding our own truth is a process and it can take time. We look for it and sometimes we even rebel and shun the truth of others in order to come into our own truth. To run alone from the pack takes courage and a whole bunch of free will. Running with the pack is indeed easier, but perhaps a little less fulfilling.

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Oftentimes the only way to get what you really need is to give up what you already have.

It doesn’t seem to make sense but it’s true. This is a particularly difficult concept to pull off in such a materialistic world because our society uses money and material wealth as a measure of our value as people.

More people are up to their eyeballs in debt than at any time in our history. We are bombarded by advertising messages telling us that we need the latest new toy, gadget, shoes or designer jeans. We literally cannot escape the buy, buy, buy message. Everywhere we turn someone is trying to sell us something, trying to convince us that we aren’t good enough if we don’t buy whatever he or she is selling. And when the advertisers aren’t hammering home the you-are-nothing-without-the-latest-product message, the people around us make us feel inadequate if we aren’t wearing the right clothes, driving the right car, living in the right neighborhood, sending our kids to right school, even owning the right breed of dog.

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Aristotle said that living well was the end. And, yet today, at a time when our access to knowledge, information and technology are unsurpassed in human history; and our standard of living is higher than ever before, few of us are truly living well.

Too many of us begin and end our days with a feeling that something is missing from our lives. Some of us feel that we are at the end of our rope, because we are living and working faster than ever before, and yet the satisfaction, the fulfillment that we derive from our lives, our work, and our relationships is cursory.

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A wish I have for all my clients, colleagues and friends is that they live a life of no regrets. Today however, I am specifically referring to the relationships in your life, including all the relationships in the past that you have unfinished business with. Are there people that caused hurtful feelings? Did you cause pain to someone else?

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