The Question I Almost Didn't Ask And How It Changed My Life | Rita Wilson | TEDxNashvilleWomen

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  @BlueskyDenver · 4 years ago (edited)

  I want to be loved and accepted. I want to heal my trauma and meet a healthy and caring partner. I want to become a mom. I want to paint seascapes and live in a beautiful home, and above all I want a life of peace..!

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  @patrickerhardt4834 · 5 years ago

  I just viewed your TED talk. You said sometimes the universe conspires to make things happen in you life. For the last 30 years I have been involved in community theater as an actor and director. Six years ago while visiting my daughter in central Florida, we paid a visit on this newly remodeled theater in town. I mentioned to the then manager what a wonderful place for live theater. NEVER! Was his response this is a movie theater. Fast forward six years. The city, owners of the theater, were looking for ideas for more activity in the theater. I presented them a plan and am now the Artistic Director of the Valerie Players in Inverness, Florida. We have a full performance schedule for 2021 and 2022 and have been blessed with an amazing pool of talented people. At a young 73 I’m doing what I really want.

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• JA

  @jagjr44 · 2 years ago

  "Success to them was living without fear, was living in a free country." How insightful. And much we take for granted everyday.

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• RI

  @RitaWilsonOfficial · 6 years ago

  Thanks for watching everyone. I hope you’ll be inspired to do the thing you love. It’s never too late.

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• BO

  @bobtreiber8556 · 3 years ago

  Tom Hanks and family are some of the luckiest people in the world. Rita is an American treasure.

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• TO

  @tonyajackson0960 · 2 years ago

  What a blessing to have a husband and daughter like that. So many take that for granted.

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• SH

  @shariday9849 · 2 years ago

  The most brilliant and life changing Ted Talk I’ve ever heard. It will linger in me until I find the answer. Thank you sweet lady, for sharing.

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• EV

  @evekiraga3105 · 4 years ago

  What I have realized what I  want is not to live life ego based.  To live a centered, spiritual life where whenever I am "triggered" or upset, I ask myself what is upsetting you about this situation.  All the problems I have are centered in me.  Instead of reacting, I say Bless you, change me.  When you practice acceptance, you don't feel resentment.  When you identify with others, you don't feel resentment.  When you tackle a problem one day at a time, you don't get overwhelmed. When you become solution based, every problem becomes a lesson. And living in today,  a daily blessing. Everyone of us has the seed of God (which for me is a spiritual energy) and when I turn inward and connect with love and acceptance of myself, I spread love and kindness, and I attract so much beauty into my life.  I speak from experience because ever since I let go of my egotistical behavior my life has changed.  I want peace, serenity and love.  I can overcome anything with my connection to the world living around me.  I become part of it.

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• EY

  @eyelikeyou313 · 4 years ago

  I want to feed people good food and help them with their mental health! I want to be a good leader in my community! Thank you Rita!

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  @Snap.Crackle.Pop. · 4 years ago

  I’ve been there, thinking I didn’t have the right to ask myself what I wanted because life had been pretty good to me. It seemed selfish. Then as life continued to unfold I realized how mediocre my life had become. So I started asking for more and allowing myself to want more. It amazes me that someone like Rita had similar thoughts. It feels very validating.

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• CH

  @chrisrioux · 3 years ago (edited)

  “I know what it is that I want.” –Oprah<br>This hit me so hard. I needed to hear this. As a constantly indecisive person who likes to consider all of the possibilities and keep their options open, I realize that not ever choosing to truly go after something, all I’m doing is spending my life dreaming, and playing around experimenting here and there, but never fully committing to to what it is my heart calls me to do, because what if it doesn’t turn out the way I dream? Then what will my dream be? But what if it’s exactly as amazing as I imagine, or even better? I’ll only know if I try. Here goes everything..

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• AM

  @amazingheroart · 4 years ago

  Wow, Rita…. This wasn’t what I THOUGHT your TED Talk would be about! &nbsp;Im a Disney Artist, always looking for INSPIRATION while I paint, and this was such a deep, personal, powerful, well spoken, masterpiece of a presentation. &nbsp;Thank you for sharing it with us all…… 🙏

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