Please Note: This is a guest post by Tim Brownson, life coach extraordinaire, and author of The Discomfort Zone.

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” (Oscar Wilde)

If you do a quick Google search for “reading body language” you’ll get somewhere in the region of 42 million results. I wouldn’t advise you to do it though because about 41 million of them will be crap and you’ll spend the rest of your life developing paranoia and thinking your family is plotting to kill you. And who knows? Maybe they are.

The reason why you’ll probably struggle to separate the good advice from that which is bad and often downright ugly is that a lot of the nonsense has taken on a life on its own like a zombie on Red Bull.

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We all have insecurities at one time or another… as parents, as professionals, as people. Most of us are in a constant search for the perfect work/ life balance that allows us to feel good about who we are, and the choices we make.

Recently I did something a little unusual with my insecurities, I exposed them to someone I’d only just met. Christopher Kabamba is a new blogger I stumbled upon a short while ago. I could tell from my first few exchanges with him that he is someone I deeply respect. He has a stillness about him, and an aura of peace and understanding.

In one of his comments he shared this James Allen quote:

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[This is a quote from a 2005 interview. Vonnegut shares a story about telling his wife he's going out to buy an envelope.]

“Oh,” she says, “well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?”

And so I pretend not to hear her.

And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people.

And see some great looking babes.

And a fire engine goes by.

And I give them the thumbs up.

And I ask a woman what kind of dog that is.

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