If you’ve got your sights set on change but something’s holding you back, maybe it’s time to “break the glass”…
Sometimes – despite our resilience, despite our optimism, despite our determination and persistence – we just can’t seem to move forward on something important. When that happens, it may be time to break the glass…
Yes, break the glass. A simple gesture, but one that brings up fears we can’t really understand. What’s wrong with breaking an inexpensive glass, when everyone has done so unintentionally at some time in their life? … It’s a rite of passage, I wanted to say. It’s something prohibited. Glasses are not purposely broken… But when we break them by accident, we realize that it’s not very serious. The waiter says, “It’s nothing.”
…Break the glass, please – and free us from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of…
— Pilar in By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept:A Novel of Forgiveness
by Paul Coelho
Ah – I like the idea of that: no more trying to satisfy Other Peoples’ (OPs) demands for justification, as in:
Lucy, you got some ’splainin’ to do!
— Ricky Ricardo
Imagine: Sweet freedom from spouting reasons and rationales, from defending what’s already happened and/or what you’re about to do… sounds liberating, doesn’t it? BUT – it’s also one of the scariest of life-choices. Why? Because now you’re in “no excuses” territory – whatever happens, it’s on you. You own it. And that, my good readers, brings us back to what Pilar, the novel character quoted above, was advocating: Continue reading » Break the Glass
How about you – what’s your attitude/approach to the holidays – and how’s that working for you?
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
— Charles Morgan
Much as I hate to admit it, I generally approach Christmas rituals in a Grinch-like mode. To me, initially, it all looks like work, work, work. And spending opportunities, spending opportunities, spending opportunities… Like I said, Grinch-me.
Call it pessimism, or realism. Definitely NOT optimism. Not yet at any rate. Somewhere on the way to Christmas Day I make the switch to some personal and perhaps, rueful version of the HO HO HO that seems to pervade almost everybody else’s Christmas celebrations. It’s a personal attitude struggle and then it’s a pleasure and then it’s back to the Grinch grind…
Continue reading » Putting on the Christmas Flash
Sometimes I am amazed at the people around me. The resilience that they show every day is an inspiration, while I feel as if I plod thru my day. They probably feel as if they plod too, but they seem to be soaring. Morning is not my time of day. Most evenings I keep going ’til at least midnight. So, don’t expect me to be up and energetic in the early morning (I’m up, just not necessarily moving quickly). To get moving, I tend to turn on the TV. I know that most people listen to the early morning shows as they get ready. Me, I listen to CNBC – until they’re just repeating themselves, and then I usually move on to my previously recorded News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Once my brain starts moving, my body usually follows.
Continue reading » Good Habits
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