Comments on: New Year, Be You http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2012/01/new-year-be-you-2/ The Power of Appreciation Thu, 17 May 2012 14:30:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jennifer http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2012/01/new-year-be-you-2/#comment-2121 Jennifer Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:54:08 +0000 http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2121 Yes, I think I will try being myself for the *New Year. I say we loose so much of who we are along the way through life. For the last 4 yrs. I have aspired to finding that person again. It is hard, you have people in your life that you don't want to hurt, but they are holding you back so you must part ways. I think that is the hardest part. Yes, I think I will try being myself for the *New Year. I say we loose so much of who we are along the way through life. For the last 4 yrs. I have aspired to finding that person again. It is hard, you have people in your life that you don’t want to hurt, but they are holding you back so you must part ways. I think that is the hardest part.

]]> By: Diane http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2012/01/new-year-be-you-2/#comment-2109 Diane Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:20:28 +0000 http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2109 Sounds alot like the Enneagram. I think the Enneagram helps you "be you", because it helps you find out who you really are. Sounds alot like the Enneagram. I think the Enneagram helps you “be you”, because it helps you find out who you really are.

]]> By: Bill Henthorn http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2012/01/new-year-be-you-2/#comment-2105 Bill Henthorn Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:36:38 +0000 http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2105 Aloha Mike, Great article ... ... and coincides with an inventory I just did yesterday, asking myself those "unexamined life" questions to make it more worth living. Mine: * What am I good at? * What are my good qualities? * What do I enjoy (even if I'm not good at them)? * What do I not enjoying doing (but I’m good or okay at)? * Where am I currently strong? * Where am I currently weak or lacking? * What do I want / do not want? I'd read back in 1998 to make two lists: of what I'm good at and what I enjoy, then form similar aspects in each list into 3 to 5 groups, and finally to match those groups across the two lists. I find it helps when I feel I'm not coming across the "right" opportunities or situations -- perhaps because I forgot what I really want and love to do. I lost touch with myself. Hauoli makahiki hou (Happy New Year), Bill Aloha Mike,

Great article …

… and coincides with an inventory
I just did yesterday, asking myself those
“unexamined life” questions to make it
more worth living. Mine:

* What am I good at?
* What are my good qualities?
* What do I enjoy (even if I’m not good at them)?
* What do I not enjoying doing (but I’m good or okay at)?
* Where am I currently strong?
* Where am I currently weak or lacking?
* What do I want / do not want?

I’d read back in 1998 to make two lists: of
what I’m good at and what I enjoy, then form
similar aspects in each list into 3 to 5 groups,
and finally to match those groups across the
two lists.

I find it helps when I feel I’m not coming across
the “right” opportunities or situations — perhaps
because I forgot what I really want and love to do. I lost touch with myself.

Hauoli makahiki hou
(Happy New Year),

Bill

]]> By: Sylvie http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2012/01/new-year-be-you-2/#comment-2104 Sylvie Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:36:09 +0000 http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2104 Hi Mr Robbins, I'm delighted to read your article (as each time I just take the time to do it). You talk about things I know intellectually but can't fully apply yet even if I'm trying my best at it, and seeing your vision in a delightful style of this aspect of being a free human being is quite refreshing. Sometimes I don't have the confidence to go for what I really am and I take a lot of advices that I just can't follow ! This advices can't apply to the being I am, they apply to the one who gives the advice and think "should do that" himself or herself. Which means they not even do it themselves when they give advices ! Seeing the "Be yourself" statement as an ongoing process is such a relief. We don't have to do it right or right away as you say, it takes time, a lot of time. Reading your article is a great reassurance for me that I'm on the right path when just trying to do that and I'm okay to know that I'll never succeed in being myself ! Being myself is following the evolution of my self into an authentic Self and that's why the process is changing every day ! So it's a good piece of news that we are never "there", because if we were totally ourselves once and for all at some point, then it would be time to die right away maybe ! Hi Mr Robbins, I’m delighted to read your article (as each time I just take the time to do it). You talk about things I know intellectually but can’t fully apply yet even if I’m trying my best at it, and seeing your vision in a delightful style of this aspect of being a free human being is quite refreshing.
Sometimes I don’t have the confidence to go for what I really am and I take a lot of advices that I just can’t follow ! This advices can’t apply to the being I am, they apply to the one who gives the advice and think “should do that” himself or herself. Which means they not even do it themselves when they give advices !
Seeing the “Be yourself” statement as an ongoing process is such a relief. We don’t have to do it right or right away as you say, it takes time, a lot of time.
Reading your article is a great reassurance for me that I’m on the right path when just trying to do that and I’m okay to know that I’ll never succeed in being myself !
Being myself is following the evolution of my self into an authentic Self and that’s why the process is changing every day !
So it’s a good piece of news that we are never “there”, because if we were totally ourselves once and for all at some point,
then it would be time to die right away maybe !

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