Dear Group, I was just re-reading Bernie's letter and thinking about my own
past. So many times my parents gave me suggestions that at the time I just
ran from! Hasn't that happened to you? In fact, my parents also had
encouraged me to be a teacher for lots of similar reasons as Bernie's dad. I
didn't want to be! I wanted to be an actress or a physician or a writer. I
am very much a teacher as the years have gone by. It is simply in me. Also,
I am a writer and a kind of healer. And sometimes I get a chance to act.
So-what we often do come back to talents and potential and sometimes fitting
circumstances that have been recognized by loved ones early on.

On the other hand, I have re-invented the ways I use these skills very
differently from the ways my parents were imagining when they thought of me
becoming a second grade teacher! That's where my personal magic came in and
knowing myself very well and daring to design a future for myself!

I bet many of you dared to design who you are and what you are doing. Please
share. It would be great to hear some of the stories of YOUR lives!


Take care,

Barbara

Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
Psychologist, Life Coach & Author

"Achieving Positive States of Mind and Body Again and Again"

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