Beth's Ponderings
When you are faced
with a task you must complete, or a problem you must solve, what is your usual
approach to it?
Is your approach
like that of most people? They hammer
away at it, without pause, like a jackhammer, using a LOT of force and effort,
expending massive amounts of energy, creating a lot of noise, yet not really
accomplishing anything.
The trouble with
that approach is not only the extreme expenditure of energy and effort, but
things (and people) tend to get damaged along the way, which leads to a worse
situation then you originally started with.
Now if the task or
problem was a mountain, then, a jackhammer is one way of getting through to the
other side. Yet, there is another way.
Instead of forcing
and wasting energy, why not be more like water.
Water doesn't fight obstacles, it just quietly and effortlessly flows
AROUND them. No effort or energy wasted,
no one and nothing is damaged, and it still ends up exactly where it is
supposed to be.
For some reason, as
a society, we believe that we have to force outcomes, and be ruthless to get
what we want. However, if you look back
at your accomplishments and successes, you will probably find that the greatest
(most memorable) ones, were usually the result of situations and circumstances
just falling into place for you without any overt forcing or effort on your
part, and you were just along for the ride.
There is no need to
force anything, all you have to do is keep moving.
Beth
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