Month: June 2023

Hopefully, not buried in the past.

The thing about heroes is that they are made of the same stuff as everyone else.

What’s important isn’t always the path we choose but rather if there is something important we are walking towards.

A long walk is way more rewarding than a short one.

It’s easy to get lost searching for a particular answer for a peculiar problem.

But usually we are just stallingand hoping to find the easy solution.

The answers we seek are often in the places we don’t want to look.

If we are quick to forgive, we also avoid future problems.

Meaning, when you feel like you are through with someone whoever you replace them with also comes with more baggage.

Inheriting a whole new set of problems isn’t the solution.

The grass isn’t always greener.

Perhaps, your emotional energy is better spent actually solving the problem in front of you instead of seeking a new one to solve.

We all need reminders that we can overcome adversity. That we can be strong. That we can have courage.

All these feelings come can go.

Life is one endless lesson.

We are constantly extracting meaning out of all situations.

As a result, there is an opportunity to learn.

Do we play the role for the situation we find ourselves in or perhaps do we create the situation for the roles we play?

Because…

Often, we play the victim for a situation we had a hand in creating.

Once the mystery is gone, then what is left to discover?

We want so badly to resolve the tension that is created when we are in the middle of a really good book or a movie, in search of resolution that we forget this space is what makes the end so good.

Don’t be so quick to resolve, instead sit with it.

What we want and what we are looking for are often not the same things.

Translation: We work so hard to get to a destination, to get to this place, and we miss the things along the way that actually fills our soul.

It has been said so often but the destination is not the goal. It is all about the process.

Compliance works great until it doesn’t. When the solution to a problem can’t be found in the manual, many look to the boss to tell them what to do next. After all, you don’t want to get fired.

Leaders, on the other hand, see a difficult problem and invent a solution.

When you are constantly told to stay within the lines, we believe that we need to go to the person with authority for answers.

It’s a problem when we teach kids to solve difficult problems this way. With multiple choice answers that can be memorized from a textbook. After all, you can just Google it.

It’s even a bigger problem, however, when we give responsibility away as soon as we hit a bump in the road.

“It’s not my problem. I’m not in charge here. That’s above my pay grade.”