Dr. Annette Colby is a counselor in Texas. She specializes in helping people transform difficult emotions. She just started a new blog that is inspiring to me. I love this quote: ” lead with my true nature instead of my fears”
That’s something I intend to do as much as possible.
Here’s a list of questions from her new blog. I’m going to just go through them here, answering them as quickly as I can, and see what comes out.
Question 1. What is something (a person, idea, place, or activity) you are curious about?
I’m enormously curious about many things, but I can stare at old pictures for hours. Lately I’ve been reading about Germany in the 1950s, specializing in women’s everyday lives.
Question 2. What is your favorite book? What ideas are in this book that spark your life energy?
I go often back to Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion by Jane Austen. The combination of ironic humor and behavior fascinates me. I would love to be as witty as Dorothy Parker or Jane’s smartest character, Elizabeth Bennet.
Question 3. What were your favorite classes and subjects in school? Which caught your attention, or inspired you to learn?
I loved writing, social history and mathematics. I became an engineer who could write, and I now apply those learnings to improving processes in companies.
Question 4. Do you have something that you deeply care about?
I care about oppressed people around me, and have been involved in diversity activities for many years. Part of this was always a wish that I could fight as hard for myself as I did for the group.
Question 5. When does time seem to fly by? What are you typically doing?
Time flies when I am analyzing data, watching an absorbing movie, laughing in a funny situation.
Question 6. What excites and energizes you?
A bit of missing information, especially involving people. I can go off for hours trying to figure it out.
Question 7. What are the values you hold dear that guide your life?
Live with integrity, love with passion.
Question 8. What is the one problem, challenge, or issue your were born to address?
My strength lies in my analytic capability coupled with my passion for people. I constantly find new issues that need both.
Question 9. What are the types of things you currently enjoy to help people?
I love to write in a way that moves and helps people.
Question 10. Name one thing you do that hours go by in what feels like minutes?
Looking at old photographs of people, preferably candids.
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