Stifled? Can’t seem to express yourself freely? Here’s a reason why…

February 8th, 2010 ikelove No comments

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You know, when I first completed this site, I considered this a milestone in my life.  After years of writing about The Viable Alternative, I finally was able to compile it all into one neat little site.  I beamed with pride at what I considered an intellectual masterpiece of all the insights that helped me on my path of personal development.

Well, after my “crowing achievement”, when I realized all was “done”, I excitedly email several trusted friends of mine who’ve been what I’ve considered confidants on my path of self-discovery and tell them to check out my site.

One of my friends, who has been a trusted mentor of mine, gave me what my ego considered to be some damning feedback about my site.  Now, I always welcome constructive criticism from trusted and well meaning people, because it helps me to grow and work on my blindspots.  However, due to fact that I am a sensitive person by nature, (a quality that I have always loathed about myself), the feedback was quite stinging.

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Welcome blog – What The Viable Alternative means for YOU.

January 7th, 2010 ikelove No comments

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Welcome to The Viable Alternative.  My goal is for you to be inspired through this concept to express your own unique greatness to the world in a way that only you can, using whatever resources and treasures that you uniquely possess.  This site provides several tools and resources listed below that will help you remove the obstacles that stand in the way of you breaking out of The Illusion and living The Viable Alternative.

  1. Podcasts where I interview people whose lives are a reflection of The Viable Alternative;
  2. A personal development blog that shares the insights and lessons that I’ve learned on my own path of self discovery and self actualization that I embarked on so that I may live The Viable Alternative.
  3. Recommendations of different books, organizations, movies that have helped me in the past;

What is The Viable Alternative?

In this site I give a general description of the concept here, and I talk about its principles and its four pillars, but you may still be confused as to how it applies in real life, so rather than summarize it like I did here, I am going to expand on it so there is no more confusion.

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