Life fluency

One helpful exercise on the journey to fluency in another language is to record one's own voice while reading aloud.  This exercise allows a person to pronounce words more crisply and to acquire the underlying tones or melody of the language.

Hearing one's own voice is quite the experience.  It doesn't sound quite like one would expect.  It makes one much more aware of the nuances that aren't the same as native speakers.  But it certainly helps in learning what adjustments to make.

The movies of our own lives so much like this tried and true language learning exercise.  When we get to see it, either from pictures, videos, or others' accounts of something that happened when we're spoken of as a third party, we notice things about ourselves that we wouldn't expect.  It allows us to make adjustments so that we can be more authentic to what we believe, what we want from life, or what we want to add to life.  I've come to fully respect these opportunities to make adjustments

After a number of adjustments have been made, this life becomes manageable, even fun, and we can live so much more in the moment.  To make the analogy complete, a person could say that we use moments for seeing ourselves as lessons in life fluency.