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BECOMING: Beyond Achieving, Acquiring, Doing…Who Are You Becoming?

BECOMING: Beyond Achieving, Acquiring, Doing…Who Are You Becoming? By Kristen Noel. Photograph of hands holding string with mock birds by Peechaya Buroughs
Photograph by Peechaya Buroughs

Are you lost in achieving and far from being? Release yourself from the rat race of ‘doing’ and focus on ‘becoming’…all that your soul truly desires.

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In the morning before your feet hit the ground beside your bed, before you sip that warm coffee (or tea), even before your blood is pumping and you are ready to start your brain like a checklist: to-dos, tasks, agendas…and that ol’ limited thinking. In the quiet of the morn, the chaos of the mind can storm in and take over — and defeat us before we even begin.

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