I am not done yet but I watched her today on Oprah. I just love the book and had to watch. I found out her happy ending, that she found love again, but I am still intrigued to finish it. She goes on the most amazing journey and some things they talked about on the show reinforced what I read.
- Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone should be. Meaning, stop wishing for things to happen - make them happen.
- I don't need to go on a year long journey to exotic places (though it would be nice) to find myself. I can start asking myself the questions anywhere and allow myself to listen in.
- I too have a hard time being in my own skin... might be because of my miscarriage many years ago, my loss of trust towards many, my own expectations of myself - all debilitating things for one psyche.
- Start a journal and answer this question every morning: What do I really, really, really want? "You have to say really, really, really three times or else you don't believe it. And answer it truthfully and do it again the next day and the next and the next," she says. "Because you can't set your journey if you don't know what you're for."
- Write down the happiest moment of every day in a happiness journal. "It's a way of reminding myself what really makes me happy and what doesn't," she says, "and learn and study and look back and see what is it consistently."
- Refine your mantra. "I say refine, not choose, because we all actually already have a mantra. We just might not realize that we do. Whatever you repeat constantly in your head is your mantra whether you know it or not, and that is leading you on your way," she says. "So if you're repeating, 'I'm a moron, I'm an idiot, I'm a failure, I'm a jerk, I'm a loser,' it's your mantra. So decide whether that's working for you. … Maybe it's not and then maybe you might want to choose a different thing to try to say whenever you remember that you're thinking what you're always doing."
Take from Oprah.com
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