Mike,

Happily, one of my "things" is commenting on blogs :-)

It's never a bad strategy to "be yourself".  It's just that sometimes we can't figure out how to be ourselves and still do the mundane things in life like pay the bills.  It seems to me the key is to find a way to "feed" our uniqueness each day, even if it isn't immediately moving us toward the big picture.  That way, it doesn't feel so defeating if we feel we've temporarily moved away from our chosen path in order to put food on the table or clothes on the kids' back.

Does that make sense?
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