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We’ve been programmed from birth to get with the program. We hear the message that you can’t start too early teaching your child to read or play the piano or learn to swim or play tennis. Before you even have time to think about what life is all about and what is important, you get put on a program and before you know it you are convinced that it you ever step off the path, you are doomed to be a loser.
We are trained to see the world as full of winners – those who follow the program – and losers – those who fall off and end up working at the convenience store on the corner. If you are with the program you define yourself by the path you followed – your college, your job or when you really get deeply embedded in the program, the college your kids got into and their job. Life becomes a set of merit badges or check boxes. [continue reading…]
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