Fight The Myth: Achieve Lifeness
Hey rebellious ones and fellow wishcasters,
Starting off 2010 with a big dream sounds good to me. This year I’m going to explore and promote “lifeness.” I define “lifeness” as being one self, a seamless merging of the play self and the business self and the classroom self. Why we’ve been taught to put on a different face for work or school makes no sense to me. All it does is promote human misery and unsavory methods to self-anesthetize from the emotional pain it invariably causes.
Being who we are is our natural state or we wouldn’t be born into natural lifeness.
The best way for me to be myself and for you to be yourself is to stop buying into the ridiculous myth that we need to divide and conquer our own personalities to be “successful.” So, I’m supposed to work with and be impressed with the phony you? Conversely, you are supposed to work with and be impressed with the phony me?
Complete garbage!
Here’s to achieving lifeness …
Muse thx,
Giulietta
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~always a delight reading your words…well said…as Giulietta wishes for herself so I wish for her too…brightest blessings~
Just love the way your wishes inspire me to do the same:)
As Giulietta wishes for herself so I wish for her also
Yeeesss, I agree wholeheartedly in principle but… sometimes we may find ourselves in working environments which are not right for us, and while we are there it may be necessary to wear the mask for a while. Which is why it’s important to get out as soon as possible.
As Giulietta wishes for herself so I wish for her also.
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As Giulietta wishes for herself, so I wish for her also.
Here’s to achieving that Lifeness – may your wish come true
As Giulietta wishes for herself, so I wish for her also.
I love this “lifeness” post — so full of truth and inspiration. These lines especially rang true: “Why we’ve been taught to put on a different face for work or school makes no sense to me. All it does is promote human misery and unsavory methods to self-anesthetize from the emotional pain it invariably causes.”
Yes, yes, yes. Why do we continue to do this to ourselves?
As Giulietta wishes for herself, so do I wish for her (and all of us!) also! To lifeness — I love it!
Very nicely said, Giulietta. What a different place our world would be if we were all committed to being simply genuine. Thanks and namaste…
Wow, Giulietta. Complete and total, genuine transparency. A challenging concept. I look forward to reading more about your take on it in the coming year.
As Giulietta herself wishes, so I wish with her also.
-TimK
That is so true and real! What a great wish. We need more truth in the world. The fake ness has become a way of art for some it seems. As Guilietta wishes for herself, so I wish for her also.
Another inspiring and thoughtful post, Giulietta. I’ve also found myself thinking about authenticity and being who we truly are. I think we all desire this, don’t we?
As Giulietta wishes for herself and others, so I wish for her and all of us as well. May we all live in lifeness!
Makes complete and perfect sense to me! Personally, I just do the stay-at-home/work-at-home-mom thing. That way I don’t have to worry about putting on “mask” at work. I’m the same me all the time. =)
As Giulietta wishes for herself, so I wish for her also.
So true Giulietta, what a wonderful wish, to be your true self in all aspects of your life. As Giulietta wishes for herself, so I wish for her also.
Your site was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this subject last Thursday.