Follow Us, Fire Up!
Another tidy-up has produced these notes I took at a seminar, or from a CD, or…..
All I know is that I have at the top of the page “Follow Us”.
Now, that’s not a bad heading, is it? So, using the analogy that we are following each other to some extent, “Follow Us” it is, BUT we also need to FIRE UP, that is, DO SOMETHING.
I must say, I have got a lot better at identifying where I am when I take notes, what the name of the course is, or what CD/DVD I am taking notes from.
As you can see, this was not always the case
- 1. The first note is a quote from Dr Edwin Louis Cole: “How well we leave a crisis will determine how well we cope with the next one: to move in, we first need to move out.”
Now, if that isn’t true!
Do you wallow in the misery, unfairness, drama of a crisis OR
Do you see what learning you were to get from the crisis?
Do you appreciate that learning?
Do you acknowledge that you will learn from it?
Do you ‘move on’ and grow as a person?
To leave a challenge behind means not taking the ‘excess baggage’ with you, baggage such as
- Negativity
- Criticism (of others and self)
- Loneliness
- Betrayal
Failing to leave the baggage means dragging it through life.
- Next note: ‘Ignoring or dropping issues will not solve them. It’s running away, not leaving them’.
Can you see the difference?
In the first part of the sentence, you are applying primitive ‘fight or flight’ behaviour. In the second part, you are using your frontal lobe, the part of your brain that differentiates you from ‘animalistic’ behaviour; only humans have this part of the brain, our thinking and discerning, choice-making brain.
You see, you can’t run away from YOU. Where YOU go, YOUR problems go.
Leave them, rather than get bitter.
That’s not to say, you can’t feel hurt. Sure you can, it’s not wrong to feel hurt; it’s HOW you respond that makes a difference.
REMEMBER to always follow your dream; don’t get stuck in the odd nightmare.
- William Arthur Ward said: “Real optimism is being aware of problems but recognising solutions.”
Just like diamonds, gold and silver, we are refined by the heat and pressure of life.
In conclusion, to aspire to greatness, we need to discipline our time, activity and ourselves.
We need to be teachable. Two of the most detrimental words in the English language are “I KNOW”.
They are a barricade to learning, growing, evolving and transforming ourselves to our true potential.
We can always learn. Even if we have information before
- We haven’t heard it said in the same way
- We may not have been ready for the deeper meaning/s
- Can we teach it to others to spread the gift around and show that we really get it?
We will all go up to the top of our potential, but only if we,
- Look up
- Give up (baggage)
- Fire up
- Show up
Now, I can tell you, after writing this posting, I’m ALL FIRED UP.
HOW ABOUT YOU?
