Laurie Helgoe

Introvert Power - Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength

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  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    Take your mind with you. Practice the simple exercise of noting what you think and feel: “Hmm, I like this.” “There is something wrong here.” “Okay, this sucks.” Turn up the volume on your inner wisdom
  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    Withdraw more openly. State your introvert needs in the affirmative rather than apologetically
  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    Practice “confident pausing.” When I studied speech, I learned to respect the pause. A deliberate pause holds the audience captive. Introverts think before speaking, and need time within conversations to develop their ideas and responses. In my family, I got used to others chiming in, so I learned to trail off and make room for interruptions—this was not confident pausing. A confident pause is a clear break, and communicates the expectation that others wait. Try it. Start with low-stress situations. Stretch out time. Use public space for thinking privately. Act as if you’ve got all day. Feel the power
  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    Absorb the power of collective introversion. Attend a meditation circle or prayer vigil. Look for people behind the scenes. Read, and make company with books. As
  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    The next time you go to a mall or one of those obligatory parties, see if you can find the pattern, the rhythm, and make it a meditation. Allow yourself to look beyond the small talk to our shared condition and longings. Let your presence offer the peace you so value
  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    Know when you’re stuck. Boredom is a clue. Addiction is a clue. Low energy is a big clue. Real desire promotes flow and expands you. Fear, sometimes masked as desire, constricts. You may feel compelled to stay locked behind your computer even though you are miserable there and all life has been sucked out of the activity. This is not desire; this is avoidance, a response to fear.
  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    The research shows that successful change starts inside, where the first three stages take place: pre-contemplation, contemplation and preparation. So if you want to get “out there,” you do better when you build up your desire internally first. It’s easier and it works better. So, don’t just do something, stand there awhile first!
  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing,” and “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”
  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    Write daily. Even a small chunk of time, fifteen or twenty minutes each day, gets your mind oriented to what you’re putting on the paper. Just as small, frequent meals aid metabolism of food, small, frequent writing sessions aid metabolism of
  • ritahuhas quoted7 years ago
    metaphors, your first writing is as delicate as a seedling. Don’t show it to some yahoo who wouldn’t know an orchid from kudzu
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