Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Keeping temp is an ever challenging battle, but one worth remembering to focus on.
When a freezer gets warm, mold grows.
When a car gets cold, it stalls.
When we get heated in a conversation, we say hurtful things.
When we give the cold shoulder, we’re losing meaningful connection.
Polar ends of the spectrum are no good. Big swings in temp neither.
Stay Positive & Don’t Just Read The Room, Feel It
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We all share a human connection, and it’s important to remember that when we think we’re the only one who feels something or goes through something.
When we feel something good and go through someone positive that no one else does, it leads to elitism. No good.
More often though, we think of ourselves as the only ones who are experiencing something bad, something negatively emotional, stressful or frustrating.
“No one else is going through what I’m going through.”
By recognizing that others actually are and do feel the same, that’s when you can find some balance. Note, it doesn’t negate the emotions, it merely balances them out with reality. (Misery loves company and there’s always company.)
Think of it akin to being in a classroom and having a question. You’re stressed and afraid to ask the teacher the question because you don’t want to look dumb. But you know you need to know to finish the assignment. And if you don’t, it’s going to put you behind in the class and your parents will be upset and you might have to retake the class in the summer. Oof.
All the sudden, someone else raises their hand. Asks the question you were afraid to ask. And you notice relief wash over not only yourself – but all the other students in the room, too.
In the moment, it felt like your world was being crushed by not knowing the answer to the question, but really the world of everyone in the class was being crushed.
Everyone around us has discomforts and pain, and we can find inner balance by recognizing it.
When we compare ourselves to others and think things like we’re the only ones to experience a mistake, a pulled back, a miscarriage or the weight of shifts in our culture – we’re lying to ourselves and feeling worse because of it.
I’m here to tell you no. You’re not the only one.
And that’s a good thing.
Stay Positive & Balanced
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The internet is working against you. Too many options, too many voices, too much noise, too many people and brands asking you to do things.
Could you imagine if “Yes Man” was based in the present digital age?
It’s impossible for people to take every action they read on twitter or convert on every website they visit.
Experiences, though. Those can be more meaningful than ever before.
It’s not fair to measure experiences by conversions (since we know conversions are unlikely). We can only measure experience by the amount we put in, the amount we care, the amount we give.
What goes around, comes around, maybe with a conversion, but maybe with something that’s not as measurable or traceable like loyalty or word of mouth or an in-person visit or an email of appreciation.
Stay Positive & It’s Worth Trusting In Your Gift
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Shedding the weight requires lifestyle changes.
It also requires a new motivation.
It also requires connecting with others who are trying to do the same or have already succeeded.
Shedding the weight requires self-forgiveness and empathy, too, for others involved in your transition and for yourself.
Of course, we’re not just talking about lbs on the scale.
Stay Positive & Find What’s Really Weighing You Down
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Reminders are motivational tools.
They ignite a positive force in us.
Most reminders that work well for you, might be seen as useless or a waste to others. That’s okay. Surround yourself with reminders, anyway.
Consider a completely white room. No bookshelf with books on it. No artwork. No photos. Nothing to remind you of your mission in life or what makes you happy. Just a white room.
Now imagine it full of reminders about possibility and the change you’ve sought to make in the world. There are photos of milestone moments in your life and artwork that reminds you of taking a leap into what’s possible and just putting your own work in the world.
Reminders can be all around us.
The background image on our phones. The art hung on the wall. The blanket you’re wrapped in.
Reminders that it’s our responsibility to make the most out of every day.
Stay Positive & Are There Enough Around You?
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What you create is going to be abstract to some.
Those who don’t see it as abstract isn’t because it’s not; it’s because it’s personal…to them.
Anything can go from being abstract to not.
If only we care enough to listen and observe.
Stay Positive & Open Eyes, Open Ears
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Liberty isn’t just the freedom to choose, say, for example which hobby you want to invest your time in this week.
It’s the responsibility.
And doing the same hobby every week for the rest of your life, well, that will get boring.
Which means it’s not just the responsibility to do something, but the responsibility to choose to do what’s right, what the heart says, what feels good.
And that may change day to day based on what makes us happy, the cultural shifts we aim to make and all those we’re connected with and will soon connect with.
And that’s okay.
That’s liberty.
Stay Positive & It Applies To More Than Hobbies, Too
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