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Do you remember the first time you heard that question?  Actually it wasn't really a question it was more like a smack, an unexpected whack that was meant to stop us dead in our tracks.  The subtext being, how dare you be so big, shiny, bright and uninhibited?   Many of us heard it for the first time when we were quite young.  There we were being the star in our own movie when someone (usually a close relative, parent or teacher) decided we needed some intervention and flung this sentence at us like a shoe.

Were we really to big for our britches?  Did we really cross over a line?  Or was our light just too bright?

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Isn't it amazing how our minds can go on without us, how easily our attention is pulled from one annoying thought to another?  What causes this disturbance and how can we take control of our own ship.  It is as though we head out for Hawaii and end up in China.  No offense to anyone who lives in China but the point is that wasn't our plan.  There is a great quote that says "Finding peace lies not in the target but in the shooter."  How do we resist the pull of obsessive or fearful thoughts?   Who is really in charge?  Why do some thoughts pull us off center?  Who is minding the mind?