- Excerpted from Daring Greatly, by Brene Brown
Ten guideposts for wholehearted living
1. Cultivating authenticity: Letting go of what people think.
2. Cultivating self-compassion: Letting go of perfectionism.
3. Cultivating a resilient spirit: Letting go of numbing and powerlessness.
4. Cultivating gratitude and joy: Letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark.
5. Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: Letting go of the need for certainty.
6. Cutivating creativity: Letting go of comparison.
7. Cultivating play and rest: Letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.
8. Cultivating calm and stillness: Letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle.
9. Cultivating meaningful work: Letting go of self-doubt and "supposed to".
10. Cutivating laughter, song and dance: Letting go of being cool and "always in control".
