How Are You Showing Up?
After a long and very uncomfortable stint with “writer’s block”, it feels sooooo good to be putting words on paper again. Although it feels a bit stumbling and bumbling, I’m still happy to be writing something. It was time for me to grab a pen and just show up. We are familiar with the philosophy of ‘just showing up for life’ instead of retreating into our fears. We've seen the magnets, bookmarks, inspirational posters, etc. that state, "90% of Success is Just Showing Up". Showing up might be half the battle (or even 90% as the slogan goes), but what's the other half? I believe it's how we show up. While showing up is indeed important, I've come to realize that there is more to it. Today someone introduced me to a different facet of this concept of showing up for life. I was reading a Facebook post by Liz Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love ), in which she was recounting her frightening experience from the previous night of singing karaoke in