Getting Real Quotes

“Shoulds keep you from owning your power to create the life you want. They keep you in denial about your actual feelings and situation.”
― Susan Campbell, Getting Real: 21 Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life

“the more you try to get reality to fit within your comfort zone, the more unprepared you are to deal with a world full of surprise, complexity, and change. Likewise, if we persist in trying to get our relationships to conform to our expectations instead of letting them be how they actually are, we may miss important opportunities to know ourselves and others more deeply.”
― Susan M. Campbell, Getting Real: 21 Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life

“To really experience true contact with another person, you must enter a realm of uncertainty together.”
― Susan M. Campbell, Getting Real: 21 Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life

“Busting out of your comfort zone might be the most fun thing you ever did — after you get over the idea that you have to be safe, appropriate, perfect, right — or that you have to be anything.”
― Susan Campbell, Getting Real: 21 Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life

“Based on a survey of approximately five hundred people, the research demonstrated that about 80 percent of the average person′s communications are geared toward controlling things that are actually beyond the person′s control: a huge waste of human energy.”
― Susan Campbell Ph.D., Getting Real: 21 Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life