October: Embrace Who I Am!!

October is here and I can hardly believe it.  My new happiness project resolution for this month is:  Embrace Who I Am!  This means:  say what I mean, feel what I feel, be honest, be decisive, don't judge myself and stay true to myself.  This will be more difficult to track during the month but I want to keep track of the times I actually do embrace who I am in any given situation.  I have realized over my life that growing up in the religious culture and performance-based life I had, I would often times have to do one thing even though I was feeling another.  Being a performer, on stage, practicing, perfecting a skill--they are all great things that I would never give up or exchange for anything.  But, in living that way for basically three decades, I have discovered that I have lost a little bit of myself in all of that.  I hope that I can really be in tune with myself this month and what it is I really feel about things.  I want my life and what's going on in my head to match up.  I want to be able to report at least one experience each week where I found myself staying true to who I am, whether that is through words, actions or some kind of realization in my life.  Onward and upward!