Tag: surrender

Goodbye familiar

Strength-based leadership
From 2012. Cool flashback. Strengths Finder Leadership summary.

 

 

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.  – Raymond Lindquist

 

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To let go is to release the images and emotions

Jack the Bear jeff noel
Left.

 

Jack the Bear jeff noel
Right.

 

 

To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.  – Jack Kornfield

 

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Don’t focus on this

funny inspiration
Funny. Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s not.

 

 

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.  – Alexander Graham Bell

 

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Wasn’t feeling it at the gym or from her

Starbucks products
Yesterday, the antithesis of food and alcoholic drink photos we see on Facebook.

 

Laptop at Starbucks
The table next to me…what first caught my eye was the unsecure laptop. Yoga mat on right, along with a large Starbucks bag on left (i didn’t peek, but wish i would have).

 

Laptop at Starbucks
Then the stickers fascinated me.

 

Laptop covered in stickers at Starbucks
When she returned from the restroom, she sat on the other side of the table. More stickers.

 

stickers on a laptop
Flipped the photo to be able to read the stickers.

 

Starbucks
Context.

 

Wasn’t feeling it at the gym, but plowed through it.

Felt good when done.

Always does.

On the ride home, stopped at Starbucks for a sandwich (used Apple pay because i carry no wallet), and afterward snapped the photo above.

There was also a Daytimer type organizer next to the laptop, jammed and overflowing with papers. And a notebook, the front cover plastered with inspirational sayings.

Be Bold.

Seize the Day.

You Rock.

Courage.

Positive Attitude.

Be the Change.

Etc.

So i asked, “What are you working on?”

To my ear, her comments were as unfocused as her organizer appeared to be disorganized.

i tried, and failed, to have a meaningful conversation.

The  woman – from India, with no car and she carried a yoga mat into Starbucks –  claimed to be a medium, but she left me unimpressed on several levels.

Wasn’t feeling it from her.

The opportunity to try (unsuccessfully) to make her day wasn’t lost on me. Do your best and let the rest go.

Do your best and let the rest go.

Surrender is a great tool.

i use it all the time.

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#Surrender

#Surrender

Surrender and the serenity prayer is the same thing.

Letting go of things i can’t control is the key to peace.

Making wellness a priority is completely in my control.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

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