Feeling discouraged because the challenges of life keep pulling you away from the better person you're trying to be?  You're practicing meditation and promoting "higher values", but often feel you're living in total contradiction of them.  Self-development coach David Tian and I meet in Orlando to discuss how getting discouraged by feelings of "hypocrisy" comes from a misunderstanding of the growth process.  In fact, this place of contradiction and frustration is the most powerful place to be in to deepen our understanding of ourselves and this world we live in, and the true tragedy is in our dismissal of ourselves as "failures" with these condemning labels.

We also tend to discredit others when they don't seem to be "practicing what they preach".  Or find fault in people simply when they trigger us, rather than taking accountability for how we feel and empowering ourselves to grow beyond these conditioned responses and, once again, learn something about ourselves.  

This talk was inspired by a project we are currently working on to provide mindfulness tools, knowledge and practices to thrive in this place of inner tension and disappointment with ourselves (and others too).