Musings on an old post.
All in Hope
Do you think we've considered this effect of COVID-19?
It’s the effect that is not so obvious, yet it is.
People make sense when you realize that they don't make sense.
Don’t try to understand the understandable. Instead, listen, be intuitive, and abandon logic.
Is peace a primal emotion?
No, but fear is. What are you doing to combat fear?
You don't have to play the game the way it's always played.
Write new rules!
The long game and limitations.
Don’t let the temporary limitations of today change your focus for tomorrow!
Confrontation.
You, now, January 8th, starting the second week of the New Year, have an opportunity to fail and to win. You will fail more than win - it's math. But if you fail the way I suggest, you'll learn!
Be a Pro.
Beating resistance, and coming alive, requires you to treat your work as a professional. I'm not referring to charging for your work, but realizing that professionals exhibit certain traits that amateurs don't.
Beat Resistance.
Think of the great people for your nation's history, the great thinkers and doers of our time; they beat the resistant versions of themselves. So can you.
Others Don't Understand.
Recognize the resistance in others. Realize that they are not trying to hold you back. They may not realize that they're expressing the resistant version of themselves.
Resistance Hides.
To break past the work of "Resistant You," you first need to identify its accomplices, realize what's going on, make a choice to face the fear, then execute - come alive.
Friends of the Resistance.
The part of you that keeps you from coming alive, "Resistant You," has friends. You probably know them.
Resistant You.
Don't listen to the version of yourself that keeps you from coming alive. Take courage, be bold, and plunge yourself into the pool of risk.
Passionate people want to believe that what they do matters. What you do does matter.
Passionate people want to believe that what they do matters and leads to success.
What you do matters, but what's your definition of success?
You're a Cog
In the end analysis, a lack of "empathy" kept me from getting the things I had seen others receive, and worse, ruined relationships. You might be a cog now, but you don’t have to be.
Grant Yourself Some Grace
To be empathetic is to be able to put yourself in someone else's shoes. To be able to see and accept their present - their truth. Grace is your ability to be thankful for the present.
Maybe it's just a Wisconsin thing, but I see so many T-Shirts that read: "Feed me tacos and tell me I'm pretty." You don't need tacos.
"The distance between where you want to be, and where you are, closes with one small step." - David Brady (until someone says someone else said it.)
Don't lose yourself. Don't lose hope.