http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/the-big-ideas/topics/robert-cooper-lighthouses en-us 60 <p align="center">&ldquo;<em>It&rsquo;s easy to act as if you are a weathervane, always changing your beliefs and words, trying to please everyone around you. But we were born to be lighthouses, not weathervanes.</em></p><p align="center">&nbsp;</p><p align="center"><em>Imagine a vertical axis running through the center of your heart, from your deepest roots to your highest aspirations. That&rsquo;s your lighthouse. It anchors you in the world and frees you from having to change directions every time the weather shifts. Inside this lighthouse there is a lens and a light. </em></p><p align="center"><em>The light represents who you are when nobody else is looking. That light was meant to keep shining, no matter how dark or stormy it gets outside&hellip;when you find that light inside you, you will know it.</em></p><p align="center"> <em>Don&rsquo;t let anyone else dim it&hellip;and one more thing: remember to look for the light inside others.</em></p><p align="center"><em>If at first you can&rsquo;t see it, look deeper. It&rsquo;s there.&quot;</em></p><p align="center">~ Robert Cooper, 21st century optimal living expert</p><p align="center">from <em>The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership &amp; Life</em></p><p>You&rsquo;re a lighthouse.</p><p>How&rsquo;s your light?</p><p>Wanna turn up the voltage?!?</p><p>Try this exercise to brighten it up: </p><p><em>Write down the five values that describe or define who you are and what you stand for:</em></p><p><em>1.</em></p><p><em>2.</em></p><p><em>3.</em></p><p><em>4.</em></p><p><em>5.</em></p><p>&hellip;</p><p>Mine? As of 5:49 am on Saturday, October 13, 2007 in a loft in Boulder, Colorado:</p><ol> <li> <p><em>I am committed to fully expressing myself creatively&mdash;I write EVERY day.</em></p> </li> <li> <p><em>I am committed to seeing the divine with everyone. In the words of Whitman, &ldquo;In the faces of men and women, I see God.&rdquo;</em></p> </li> <li> <p><em>I commit to being the change I want to see&mdash;embodying the ideals in which I believe and having fun being a model of human potential&mdash;and teaching everything I learn while humbly and audaciously showing everyone that they, too, can live their dreams!</em></p> </li> <li> <p><em>I commit to living with love, to appreciating my divine Goddess and doing everything I can to support her in fully expressing her beautiful creativity.</em></p> </li> <li> <p><em>I commit to smiling a lot, having fun and remembering that life will be what I determine it to be&hellip;and I am determined to bring joy and lightness to my life and to the world.</em></p> </li></ol><p>Yours? </p><p>Please (please please!) take the time to do it right now! <em>If not now, when?!?</em> </p><p>&hellip;</p><p>Remember: <em>&quot;It&rsquo;s easy to act as if you are a weathervane, always changing your beliefs and words, trying to please everyone around you. But we were born to be lighthouses, not weathervanes.&quot;</em></p> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:43:17 -0000 forums.thinkarete.com:503:329:329 brian http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/503/topics/329