It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
— Seneca
Remember that commercial – “Is it real or is it Memorex?” They would usually have an opera singer hitting a really high note and breaking a glass and then play the recording of the singer and break another glass. It was a way to show the true fidelity of the recording.
I’ve been noticing how much we, as a society, have been talking about our troubles. Have you noticed? We talk about what bothers us more than we talk about what pleases us. There’s been a lot of conversation about how bad things are economically and how the Baby Boomers won’t have the retirement that they expected. It seems that we’re on a perpetual downer around here. The conclusion that I’ve reached is that somehow, we’ve decided that problems aren’t part of life, which is why we get soooo bent out of shape when a problem turns up.
I blame it on the Declaration of Independence. Continue reading » Is It Adversity or Is It Life?
Join My Pastiche – add some fun stuff to my Out-of-the-Dumpity-Dumps List…
Today I invite you to turn on your sound, click play on the following YouTube video and hum along, let the video play in the background while you read on…
Did you do your 48 hours of ABC’s? I’ll show you one of mine. How about it, will you tell me one of yours?
Good Readers, take note: This may be difficult to read so avoid it if you’re feeling down; save it for another day, or never, your choice. PattiAnn tells me it’s “just a couple steps above my post Such is the Power – A Lament” which was posted shortly after my husband died.
I meant this post to be about how to transform a pessimistic perspective into an optimistic outlook; and for that purpose, I have shared some deeply personal (and usually private) feelings about my grief. I didn’t write it to make you sad, although it deals with sadness. Nor am I looking for sympathy. PLEASE no sympathy. Just good fellowship.
I wrote it to show me and anyone else who must walk this path that hope can prevail. Life goes on and I want to choose a life of hope rather than despair.
So, read on if you dare. Or skip it if you must. Thanks for visiting no matter what you decide.
How about it, will you do your ABC’s for 48 hours?
PattiAnn and I used to be (well I guess we still are) experts on sales and service performance improvement. That was our niche. What caused us to shift our focus to resilience?
Going From Hero to Zero
Well, if you are lucky enough to know and love sales or service people, you’re familiar with the daunting tasks they face: they search for and secure elusive new business, soothe the inevitable irate customers, satisfy the demands of anxious managers, overcome all the quirks and foibles of their company’s operational systems and, despite all their dedication and perseverance, they go from hero to zero on the first day of every month! That’s pretty darn discouraging. So, to serve our customers better, PattiAnn and I hunted for and found better bounceback solutions to help them with their daily heapings of adversities.
How can you streeeetch to become more flexible?
A friend of mine has become a serious part-time nature photographer. After having worked for several years in a highly left-brain technical field, he has put both sides of his brain together to create some beautiful art. In picking his equipment, he focused on all the technical doohickeys that make what he has great. Once he’s out in the wild, he gets caught up in the wonder of nature and records it at the rate of many frames per second. Then, he chooses which pictures of the many hundreds he took are suitable for publishing.
Continue reading » Yoga for the Soul
photo credit: magerleagues
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