Don’t Fight The Universe; Surrender To Resistance
Monday, January 5th, 2009
photo credit: Hamed Saber
“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.” - Abraham Lincoln
Many people think that “surrender” is a dirty word. But, there are situations in which surrendering is your best option. You give up control of a situation, only to gain it back.
Have you ever tried to do something, only to find yourself failing? So you try harder, but find yourself getting farther and farther away from where you want to be? That’s what it feels like to meet resistance. Typically, when we meet resistance we push harder, only to find that we create more. This is when it’s time to surrender.
Discover Opportunities You Never Imagined; Embrace Uncertainty
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
photo credit: Untitled blue
Do you know what’s going to happen to you tomorrow? The answer to this question is inevitably “No.” Even if you have the best plans and schedules, you can’t predict for sure what’s going to happen.
So how do you deal with uncertainty? By accepting it.
Uncertainty is Stressful (But it doesn’t have to be)
Letting uncertainty happen is stressful. It scares us when we don’t know what’s going to happen because we imagine all kinds of bad and undesirable things that might occur. We feel that we can’t leave too much up to chance. But when we try to eliminate all uncertainty, not only do we block out the bad stuff that could happen we also block out the good things that could happen - things that we never guessed might occur.
Be Idle and Achieve
Monday, June 30th, 2008
photo credit: seanmcgrath
Idle time is one of the least valued and most valued things in our lives. Least valued because we tend to think that faster is always better and most valued because we’re already going so fast that all we want is to be able to slow down. Periods of slowness are important not because of what we are doing, but because of what we are not doing.