Wisdom for Spirited Entrepreneurs
by The Sassy Ladies: Michelle Girasole, Wendy Hanson, and Miriam Perry
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“The unexamined life is
ways, from a vague feeling that
not worth living.”
something is a little off the mark to
a deep ache that just won’t go away.
Finding out how you can shift the
Socrates is credited with uttering
quality of your life begins with an
these words as he decided his own
examination of your values.
fate, choosing death over exile
for the crime of encouraging his
Each of us has a different set of
students to challenge conventional
values, or principles, that we hold
thinking of the time and think for
dear above others. Losing touch
themselves. For him, the idea of
with these values creates an
a passive life, devoid of original
imbalance because we’re no longer
thought was intolerable. Fortunately,
honoring our true selves. If you
most of us don’t have to make such
value self-expression, but find
a dramatic choice when it comes to
your attempts at expressing
living a life we can be proud of, but
your ideas and creativity are
facing the truth about the life we are
suppressed at work and/
leading can lead to a certain amount
or at home, you’re likely
of discomfort.
feeling dissatisfied. If
integrity is important
It’s the nagging feeling you have
to you, but your
when you wake up to face a new
work or personal
day or take stock at the end of your
life requires you to
day that, somehow, life has passed
behave otherwise,
you by. It’s the sense that life is
you probably feel
happening to you, rather than that
you’re being asked
you are in charge of your life. This
to betray yourself.
discordance between how you
want to live and how you actually
live manifests itself in a number of
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