Comments on: Fear is faith in the wrong direction http://www.lizmcgowen.com/archives/peace-happiness-and-love/fear-is-faith-in-the-wrong-direction/ Resources for small business websites Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:18:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Susan http://www.lizmcgowen.com/archives/peace-happiness-and-love/fear-is-faith-in-the-wrong-direction/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Susan Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:41:31 +0000 http://www.lizmcgowen.com/?p=181#comment-210 I am famous for "shoulding" on myself, as first pointed out to me by my alumni career counselor 10 years ago. Sometimes it is very difficult to see the tremendous choices and opportunities right in front of you...and very easy to follow the path that 'everyone else is doing.' Sometimes that's why I find the American Dream so stifling. You grow up thinking very linearly...graduate high school, go to college, get a job, get married, have kids, buy a house. If you don't achieve that in order, the 'right' way, it is very compelling to chalk up your life as a failure. Which, in a word, is fear. Thanks, Liz!!! I am famous for “shoulding” on myself, as first pointed out to me by my alumni career counselor 10 years ago. Sometimes it is very difficult to see the tremendous choices and opportunities right in front of you…and very easy to follow the path that ‘everyone else is doing.’ Sometimes that’s why I find the American Dream so stifling. You grow up thinking very linearly…graduate high school, go to college, get a job, get married, have kids, buy a house. If you don’t achieve that in order, the ‘right’ way, it is very compelling to chalk up your life as a failure. Which, in a word, is fear. Thanks, Liz!!!

]]> By: Jessica http://www.lizmcgowen.com/archives/peace-happiness-and-love/fear-is-faith-in-the-wrong-direction/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Jessica Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:09:04 +0000 http://www.lizmcgowen.com/?p=181#comment-180 Interesting. I'm very much on the "should" path as well although I feel like I've stopped walking the path and I'm just waiting to find the "correct" path. I bet if I started writing about it, I'd learn some things but I think I haven't been writing as much because I'm scared about what that writing I(self-reflection) might reveal. <abbr><em>Jessica’s last blog post..<a href="http://slackermomspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/05/suffering-from-spiritual-perfectionism.html" rel="nofollow">Suffering from "spiritual perfectionism"</a></abbr></em> Interesting. I’m very much on the “should” path as well although I feel like I’ve stopped walking the path and I’m just waiting to find the “correct” path. I bet if I started writing about it, I’d learn some things but I think I haven’t been writing as much because I’m scared about what that writing I(self-reflection) might reveal.

Jessica’s last blog post..Suffering from "spiritual perfectionism"

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