So, if you are a closet academic, with spiritual tendencies, a curious heart, and a voracious appetite for pretty words, you may have also binged read a few things by the following authors in the past month:Pema Chodron, Tony Robbins, Viktor Frankel, Malcolm Gladwell, Deepak Chopra, and Ross Greene.
But then again... maybe not-it is an odd list.
To save you from the list or maybe more appropriately to encourage you to indulge in it, I have smushed together all the learning that has forced my brain to develop new synapses and lovely trellises of connections over the past 30 days:
Between stimulus and response there is a space and room for choice.
Your choice may vary dependent on the time/space/circumstances you were born-
as well as your penchant for hard work.
Your choice may also depend on the metaphors you use daily to describe your world.
Your choice should be intentional.
If your choice is unintentional or leads to harm, you simply don't have the skills to choose correctly.(Happy fact- you can learn those skills!)
If you can abide in the uncomfortableness of the choice, you will grow and learn.
Luckie me for having access to all of this amazing work because I was born at the right time in the right circumstances to have the firm belief that "life is an opportunity" that I don't mind working for even if it makes me uncomfortable sometimes. ( My daughter, the English teacher, just cringed at that sentence.)
La la.
