| This is the age of rediscovery. | | | | known or visible. To expose. Not being an expert |
| Bookstores are filled with hundreds of books on | | | | in linguistics I would offer that Re-discover would |
| how to rediscover your childhood, relationships, | | | | assume that we have already done the discovery |
| sense of balance, your mission or purpose in life | | | | and we for what ever reason need to do it again. |
| and meaning in your career or business. | | | | I believe herein lies a part of the problem. Most |
| Everywhere I look I see people who are working | | | | people have never really discovered themselves |
| harder at trying to have fun and find a sense of | | | | the first time so their rediscovery is a new |
| meaning in their jobs and in their life in general. | | | | discovery at best. |
| Is this an idea whose time has come or is it the | | | | I have never been crazy about dictionary |
| accumulation of years of searching and chasing | | | | definitions. I often find them either redundant or |
| after the empty values in life. | | | | of no value, but in this case I am stuck with what |
| People by the tens of thousands are leaving | | | | Mr. Webster has to say on the subject. Since he |
| corporate America in search of freedom, | | | | is not around to question my elaboration I am |
| fulfillment and a sense of control over their life. | | | | free to add whatever I choose to his brief |
| People are leaving relationships by the millions in | | | | description. |
| search of something more or better. Whatever | | | | Rediscover yourself means to me, an awakening |
| more or better means. | | | | of your true self. Those real feelings, fears hopes, |
| There is increasing evidence that many of these | | | | longings and values that have shaped your life. |
| people in spite of their renewed search for more | | | | Often because of self expectations, other peoples |
| are still leading lives of "quiet desperation". This | | | | agendas for us, the rules of society, the rules of |
| was true when Emerson wrote it and it is still true | | | | business, the needs that we create due to |
| today. In spite of an increasing number of choices | | | | decisions we make along life's path we have built |
| of careers, playthings, people, activities, travel and | | | | walls around ourselves to protect us from the |
| interests frustration seems to still be the word of | | | | world "out there". What we have also done |
| the day. | | | | unwearyingly is to protect ourselves from the real |
| I have a client in the cruise business. I recently | | | | world "in here". Few people really know |
| spent three weeks cruising the Caribbean while I | | | | themselves. Fewer still that do, never achieve a |
| was working with the crews. (I know it was | | | | state of authenticity or realness. Most people go |
| tough duty, but someone had to do it) I had allot | | | | through life in auto pilot. |
| of free time to observe a wide variety of | | | | We have learned our reactions and lessons well. |
| passengers and their behavior. | | | | We play our parts with precision. We have lost |
| People would push and shove to get on board the | | | | the childlike spontaneity and curiosity that are the |
| ship prior leaving port and they shoved and | | | | benchmarks for peace and happiness. |
| pushed just as much to get off the ship when | | | | I know, because I to have spent years building |
| the cruise was over. I watched as people | | | | protective walls around myself. It has only been in |
| everywhere brought with them on board more | | | | the last few years that I have been willing to find |
| than bathing suits and healthy appetites. I watched | | | | the courage to be. I must admit that I have a |
| as they brought their relationship frustrations and | | | | long way to go, but at least I have begun. |
| agendas, their fears and prejudices, their anger | | | | There are risks in being real. There are times |
| and their hopes, their un-met needs and their | | | | when rejection cannot be avoided. There are |
| attitudes about everything both positive and | | | | times when other's judgments will, if we let them, |
| negative. | | | | creep into our behavior. John Powell's book, Why |
| One would have thought that these people, since | | | | am I Afraid to Tell You Who I am is one of my |
| they were on vacation would have been able to | | | | favorites. In it John talks about the value of |
| relax and enjoy life at least for a week. Not so. If | | | | vulnerability and the pitfalls of hiding. I wish I had |
| they were unhappy on shore they were just as | | | | read it years before I did. I am confident I would |
| unhappy on board. If they were angry on shore | | | | have had fewer years of guilt, disappointment, |
| they were just as angry on board. If they were | | | | struggle and pain as I worked on becoming a |
| happy on shore they were just as happy on | | | | human being rather than a human doing. Note the |
| board. | | | | subtle difference. |
| "The problem is not in the stars, but in ourselves". | | | | Rediscovering yourself is getting in touch with |
| What is Rediscovering Yourself | | | | your divinity and its expression through your |
| Lets look at the definition: Discover, To obtain | | | | humanity. |
| sight or knowledge of for the first time. To make | | | | |