Was leaving..or GOING..the hardest thing you’ve ever done?

Our NON-Book club posed three interesting questions in lieu of giving a book report. I’ve listed them with my answers and thoughts:

• Q. What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
  A. My answer: Leaving the security of a corporate position to start my own company.
• Q. What are the most important qualities you look for in friends?
  A. Trust, mutual respect, a giving heart, the ability to advise without judgment
• Q. What life experience has strengthened you the most?
  A. Being part of the dying journey with so many people close to me. Seeing their dignity in the process, sharing the joy that was theirs, and celebrating the legacies they left behind.

It was fascinating how most of the answers for the hardest thing you’ve ever done involved leaving a job, a person, a city. We resolved it by thinking perhaps it’s because it means you wonder who you will become and if you’ll have to redefine the person you become. The trick to this might be to stop thinking of it as leaving and start thinking passionately of where you are going.

Petey asks…
How would YOU answer the same three questions? Are you succeeding in spite of or because of?

Get a copy of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz. Decide to LIVE passionately!