If you choose to focus primarily on the external, on what happens to you, then you may well wind up settling for the life that shows up. If you listen more intently to your Soul-Talk, then you will find that you can create more of the life experience you would prefer.

No matter what befalls you, you still have choices about how you respond. As you choose your response, you create your experience.

Whenever I pause and connect to the part of me that truly cares, I usually find that I can share criticism in a way that allows the caring to come through.

The idea has been around us forever, perhaps most simply and elegantly stated by George Bernard Shaw and then paraphrased by Robert Kennedy: "Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?"