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Honesty in Action
As declared in my last post, I’ve decided to embark on a social experiment of 100% transparency, 100% self-acceptance and 0% shame. Already it feels incredibly difficult. As much as I hate to admit...
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Day 4: The Honesty Project
Today is Day Four of my Truth Experiment (or not telling another lie for the next year). I already consider myself to be an unusually honest person, but taking on this project has raised my awareness...
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Day 9: The 100% Honesty Project
Clay Chimenea It has been a few days since my last Truth Experiment Update and I have oodles to share. So far, the experience has been mostly positive, though at times, uncomfortable. I’ll start...
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Time to Get Naked
Whenever taking on a new project or making a major life change, my thinking becomes clouded and fuzzy. In conversation, I stutter over finding the right words to express myself and, in mid-sentence,...
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Day 21: How to Give Honest (but Friendly) Feedback
photo credit: Buzzfeed, Dave Stropera This little social experiment has given birth to some incredible conversations about fear and authenticity. In one of these conversation a friend recently...
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Day 26: What is the Purpose?
I had coffee with a friend yesterday who asked me what my end goal is. What is the purpose of this blog? I had such a hard time articulating my response. I had difficulty because part of my purpose...
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Day 28: Do Just One Thing
Some days, from the moment I wake up until the time I go to sleep, are just plain bad. No matter how much positive thinking I do, I can’t shake the negativity. It’s like the 24-hr-cold of emotion....
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Day 42: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus The Minimalists I met these great guys last Saturday. Their names are Josh and Ryan and they write a blog about minimalism. Well. It’s not really about...
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Day 65: Take This Job and Shove It
New Beginnings I started off the New Year right. I started it jobless. That’s right folks. I quit! Sounds exciting but quitting didn’t turn out quite the way I imagined. Rather than submitting my...
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Day 69: How Honesty Builds Courage
This was my Weekend I stand watching four handsome firemen extinguish my car engine, which had spontaneously caught fire at 70 mph on the freeway. Are you f-ing kidding me? Nope. That’s really what...
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Day 74: Embracing Uncertainty
As I’ve been reading and rereading the self-help books that will somehow transform my mind and make this entrepreneurial path suddenly easy (yeah right), I’ve had several light bulb moments. Not...
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Day 99: Success in Slow Motion
I’ve been away from writing for so long I feel as though I need to report to you everything that has happened in my absence. In truth, I don’t. Suffice it to say that being unemployed is a mixed bag...
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Day 205: The Struggle
I’m really struggling with this honesty thing. It feels… emotionally dangerous. It’s not that I’ve blatantly lied. I haven’t. I’ve just stopped sharing so much. I get it now. I get why people...
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Day 743: A Way Out
It’s been a year and a half since I last wrote here. So much has changed. I’ve lost friendships. Made new ones. Got a job. Then got a better one. Found a boyfriend. Broke up. Met someone amazing...
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