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Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.Gina Greenlee
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No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.Gina Greenlee
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Showing up begins long before you stand at the start. Prove yourself an exception in a world where people talk more than act. Intent without follow-through is hollow. Disappoint yourself enough times and empty is how you feel. Make yourself proud. Fill yourself up. Show up.Gina Greenlee
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Risk: no full life occurs without it.Gina Greenlee
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Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.Gina Greenlee
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Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.Gina Greenlee
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Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.Gina Greenlee
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Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.Gina Greenlee
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We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print. In the end, only action satisfies our longing.Gina Greenlee
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To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust — not only of others but also, ourselves.Gina Greenlee
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If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.Gina Greenlee
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The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.Gina Greenlee
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What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.Gina Greenlee
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What do you resist examining up close? How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?Gina Greenlee
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The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.Gina Greenlee
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Feeling lonely? Wish you had a special someone to help fill the void? Reconsider your definition of romance, reconnect to your passions and be swept away.Gina Greenlee
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Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.Gina Greenlee
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It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.Gina Greenlee
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Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.Gina Greenlee
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One of the best kinds of thrill is defining, honoring, and achieving our goals.Gina Greenlee
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The best way to teach is how you live your life.Gina Greenlee
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To commune with your heart and soul, be willing to go out of your mind.Gina Greenlee
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Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.Gina Greenlee
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Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life’s good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to distinguish between loneliness (experienced by default), and solitude (choosing when and how to enjoy my own company), as I began a journey of engaging the world on my own terms. Over the years, that journey deepened as I traveled life’s roads with increasing independence and confidence, whether I was attending graduate school at night while working during the day, buying my first house or changing careers. .Gina Greenlee
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In these pages, traveling “solo” does not necessarily mean “alone.” The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. “Solo” by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.Gina Greenlee
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The gift of solo moments is that they are wholly ours. On or off the road, solo moments connect us inward to ourselves with heightened clarity and insight. They also direct our energies out into the world, magnetizing us to new people and experiences we may not have encountered under any other circumstance.Gina Greenlee
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Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.Gina Greenlee
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Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from yourdesk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin.Gina Greenlee
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Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.Gina Greenlee
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When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.Gina Greenlee
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Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever namesuits you, rediscover the art of meandering.Gina Greenlee
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Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven't yet built your tree house, it's never too late to start.Gina Greenlee
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Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.Gina Greenlee
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Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.Gina Greenlee
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Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.Gina Greenlee
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If you can’t remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you’re overdue.Gina Greenlee
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At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.Gina Greenlee
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The next time someone tries to make you feel bad about feeling good, respond by continuing to live well.Gina Greenlee
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Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroadsformed years and miles apart.Gina Greenlee
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Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.Gina Greenlee
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What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.Gina Greenlee
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The help we give to others creates the ripple of good feeling we give to ourselves.Gina Greenlee
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Sharing our story is one way we create intimacy. And like a good novel, it’s more engaging — and lasting — when we allow it to gradually unfold.Gina Greenlee
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As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for “instructions.Gina Greenlee
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Don’t wait for a genie to grant your wishes. That power is yours.Gina Greenlee
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Sometimes our dreams are affirmed in the most unlikely ways by the mostunlikely people. That’s why we need to speak our commitment out loud.Gina Greenlee
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When we establish human connections within the context of sharedexperience we create community wherever we go.Gina Greenlee
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When we write down our dreams we transform what we imagine into reality.Gina Greenlee
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When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance, they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called, “use the difficulty.” How can you “use the difficulty” in your life?Gina Greenlee
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We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference betweenthe two can make all the difference in the end.Gina Greenlee