by Tara Joyce | Jul 9, 2014 | Innerpreneurship, My Journey | What's On My Mind, Pay What It's Worth Pricing
A Calling
I’ve always wanted to — and knew I needed to — WRITE a BOOK.
If I knew anything about myself, I KNEW this. And this KNOWING was so powerful that it became incredibly painful.
Resistance
But I didn’t know how, so I tried to escape from IT. The pressure of IT. For a while.
With time and practice, it became not so much the WRITING that weighed, but THE (unwritten) BOOK itself. As did my resistance to ALL THE MEANING I had now placed on IT.
Nothing meant more than creating THE BOOK I always dreamed of, and so under this heavy weight IT sat stagnant.
IT meant too much to move, the fear of not getting IT right or not getting THERE at all hovered. The seriousness of the endeavour weighed. I NEEDED to do this.
Acceptance
Five year ago I started writing THE BOOK I dreamed of creating, and today I am ready to share it with you.
It’s taken lots of work on myself, and spending the last year writing the start of a fiction series, to reach THIS place where I am ready, willing, and able to write and share my BOOK that meant so much.
I can now see and trust that this BOOK that means so much, is one of many inside me. I now know I am able to do IT.
And IT doesn’t mean as much as I made it out to. And yet IT means so much more.
I feel ready now to step fully into who I am. To feel FREE to collect and share my words and thoughts with you. And to KNOW it means something when I do, but this meaning isn’t there to scare me, only motivate.
A Heroic Journey
And so, with no further ado, I am proud to share with you my first book, Pay What It’s Worth: Building Your Sustainable System for Not Setting Prices.
May it take you on an adventure the way it has taken me.
by Tara Joyce | Jun 18, 2014 | Self/Business Growth
Creative. Intuitive. Wise. Beautiful. And all the other qualities we (sometimes) believe only the special possess.
The possession of these gifts, however, is not a special thing. For we each possess them, with varying degrees of visibility.
The special thing, the thing stands out, is not the qualities themselves but the empowered use and the deliberate practice of them.
For to practice and harness your creativity, your intuition, your wisdom, your beauty takes patience, dedication, and optimism. It takes developing less visible qualities in pursuit of your more visible ones, and it takes focusing your time and energy on your goals, while accepting that the immediate satisfaction of these needs can not be met.
This is what makes these people special. Not the qualities themselves, but their dedication and persistence in nurturing and sharing what’s inside of them.
photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography
by Tara Joyce | Jun 11, 2014 | Cultural Creativity
What if our words were thought of as a resource to be conserved and used wisely?
What if we saw the misuse of our words as a waste of precious resources, similar to the misuse of our oceans or another limited resource?
What if we saved our words? Saved them from carelessness, from thoughtless expressions, saved them from being used to harm people and the planet?
What if we learned to respect all our resources? Not just the one’s from the earth and that other posses, but the one’s that are personally our own?
What if we knew our expression as our most valuable resource? How would we change things if we knew the true cost of wasting it carelessly?
photo credit: quinnanya
by Tara Joyce | Jun 4, 2014 | Cultural Creativity
Logically speaking, when I deny my emotions as a factor my conclusions can’t help but be faulty, can they?
When I deny my emotions, I can’t be rational, logical nor true, can I?
If anything, I’m being highly illogical. Emotional even.
I’m certainly not acting from a place of wholeness.
To not recognize that my emotions exist, and/or the emotions of others, is an imbalance in perception that will not benefit me.
To be neutral and balanced, to honour the existence and validity of my emotions and yours, while not attaching to them, is my only way to be wholly logical.
Because logically speaking, the whole of me must be relevant, as must be the whole of you, right?
photo credit: MattysFlicks
by Tara Joyce | May 28, 2014 | Cultural Creativity
I’ve got this tendency in communication, maybe you have it too… I sometimes take on more responsibility than is rightfully mine.
You see, I am good at communicating. It comes naturally. I like it and because of this, I sometimes take on the job of doing it, even when it’s not mine to have.
Sometimes, I take on the job of valuing your words and expressions when you are not. Sometimes, I choose an unequal exchange.
An equal exchange
But here’s the thing, the truth about empowered communication and empowering myself through communication — sometimes, it’s best if I don’t listen. Sometimes, it’s best if I don’t acknowledge what’s being communicated.
If you’re communicating in a constructive way, then listening and recognizing you is my priority. But, if you’re not holding up your end of the communication bargain and being responsible for your role in the relationship, then your words lose their value. For you are no longer valuing them.
Your carelessness with your communication is not my responsibility.
Shared responsibility
What’s mine is my responsibility towards empowered communication and my need for co-creative communication.
What’s mine are maintaining my boundaries around what is our shared responsibility in our exchange.
valuing my words & expressions = valuing your words & expressions
Both are my job. And both are yours. That’s how we co-create communication together.
photo credit: Stephen – 10on12
