Category: Our Choices Make Us

Life is hard, and we are busy and distracted

Post It note display at Office Max
A metaphor for the overwhelming number of options for each individual choice.

 

This reminds me of the corporate world, and when organizations restructure to make things better. Always intrigued by the thought and effort spent on restructuring leadership karma. From the Bible:

“No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37) And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38) But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39) And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, ‘The old is good.’

Life is hard.

We know this.

Up to each of us to deal with it effectively.

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How can we not make a guarantee to be an example instead of a warning?

Sign with bold promise in hotel elevator
How can we not make a gaurantee to be an example instead of a warning?

 

Everything we do and say tells a story about what is at the center of our universe.

The challenge is that we judge our story based on our intentions, others judge our story based on our behaviors.

Big dif.

Huge difference.

And almost always in conflict with each other.

So may we be crystal clear on the center of our universe.

And may our behaviors (not our thoughts) be the kind of example that others aspire to emulate.

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The temptation to make exceptions

Page 100 from mid Life Celebration
Incremental progress adds up over time. So does incremental decline.

 

The temptation to make exceptions. How often does it happen? Daily, weekly, monthly, never? Or maybe all the time?

There is an exception to every rule, or so it is said.

Maybe we become the exception when we no longer are willing to make (hypocritical) exceptions.

(repeating photo caption: Incremental progress adds up over time. So does incremental decline.)

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