Fitting In, Or Not

Your individuality may lead you to be involved a lot with others, or it may not.

Make sure your deep comfort level is telling you where to be.

The counsel of listening within is always good.

When it leads you to be with others, go.

When it leads you to be alone and to listen more deeply, do that.

The cultivated habit of listening within will guide you to where you belong.

Nothing else can be counted on to be so accurate and so powerful and so satisfying.

Rather than resenting being left out or being confused by not being included, use the time to listen within.

You will find your community as you do what comes to you deeply.

You will make your community as you go along.

The world needs leaders, exceptional, original and innovative leaders.

How are they going to be provided if everyone just “fits in”?

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Fitting In, Or Not

Your individuality may lead you to be involved a lot with others, or it may not.

Make sure your deep comfort level is telling you where to be.

The counsel of listening within is always good.

When it leads you to be with others, go.

When it leads you to be alone and to listen more deeply, do that.

The cultivated habit of listening within will guide you to where you belong.

Nothing else can be counted on to be so accurate and so powerful and so satisfying.

Rather than resenting being left out or being confused by not being included, use the time to listen within.

You will find your community as you do what comes to you deeply.

You will make your community as you go along.

The world needs leaders, exceptional, original and innovative leaders.

How are they going to be provided if everyone just “fits in”?

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

The Value of Complaining

Sometimes it is important to make noise about injustice.

When it affects a lot of people, that is one of the ways that reforms have been accomplished.

Sometimes it is better to remain quiet, but to still seek a solution within.

I am learning to navigate the spiritual and mental waters, to listen for the direction that leads me to the right answer.

I appreciate the work of others who are able to organize and mobilize large numbers of people, too.

But the work I find I am led to do is quiet work, from within.

I see the results on the outside once I am led to do what is necessary to fix the problem.

But the quietness of listening to respond to even a really bad situation, is what has been working most consistently for me.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Service and Productivity First

The thing that is so wonderful about our children and young people is the way they come up with so many new and great ideas and new approaches to things.

There is so much more going on in developing a life than getting a job in an existing field doing repetitive work that has been done that way for so many years.

It is different if a person is learning traditions.  Then they can bring their interest and curiosity and learn the best practices of that period.

But if they are here to contribute their time and thinking to the new situations and circumstances that confront us today, then this is the time to really and truly look within.

What are the tools that you have to do this?

Do you have some quiet peaceful time?

Do you know how to shut up all the sounds around you and the mental comments within?

When you do, you can listen for the thing that you are here to do.

You may start with something simple or you may start with something complex.

Start.

That is the key.

If you can, include doing a service for someone.

Honestly, mow a lawn, clean a garage, help sort out a room.

That gets the service mentality flowing.

This habit is the one that will lead to a job and will keep you going while you invent it.

Valuing your brand new young ideas and investing your own time and thought into them and using your time and abilities for service, all together, are what will produce your job.

You put your productivity in motion first.

Then you receive the reward.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

You Can "Mine Yourself Deeply"

“Those who do original work in any field do so because they mine themselves deeply and bring up what is personal.” --Rudolf Steiner

This quote strikes me so powerfully today.

It says there are resources that are deeply personal that are available to each person.

While we cannot solve new problems the old ways, (in fact, the old ways are creating a lot of the problems), there is always room for the personal, individual solutions we can find by removing all attachments to what has gone before or is even visible now.

I like the idea of “mining oneself”.  It uses available resources.

It uses what we have right in front of us.

It uses what we have within.

It uses what we have now.

Deeply trust yourself.

Identify with yourself, not with a job or lack of one.

What is the ideal solution you have been seeking for a situation which only you are aware of?

What is the original use of a material or resource which keeps “niggling” you?

What is the most common application in the world which no one else has bothered to pay attention to?

What is the simplest and most accessible audience you have for your idea?

I am seeing unique associations among people who are pursuing their passions and identities with regard for how it allows them to serve.

They are drawing all the other resources they need as they keep walking toward that one goal, the goal of feeling fulfilled as they “mine themselves deeply”.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com