Eric Thomas poses the question: “Are you willing to sacrifice who you are for what you want to become?”
While many of us want growth and hope for better outcomes in our lives, this question is a stark reminder of the necessity and reality of change. Just as building stronger muscle requires the destruction of tissue as a catalyst for new growth, so too does our quest for bigger, better, faster, stronger, smarter, etc.
Movement requires action, and the change agent required is the abolishment of old habit in the formation of new.
One such change is the tempering of impulse when triggered. I’ve always said that the space between stimulus and response is a gift. If you can find a way to honor this space before you act, you’ll find hidden strength, once masked by reactivity.
Awareness drives new opportunity. Without a predetermined response and a plan of action for the choice that will come, we often times find it impossible to keep up or even catch that choice point until it has come and gone. It’s then we realize that we had a choice, knew better, but refused to stop mid-path to pause time and allow for an adjusted and more appropriate path forward.
This requires practice. It requires an awareness of self when triggered. It requires a daily commitment to start chipping away at ego’s persona.
Will you allow a pace and space for discovery and stillness, or will you avoid the change all together? We’ll not find perfection here, but we will certainly be given ample practice time in this big game we call LIFE.
Remember that GROWTH is always a choice.
Until next week my friends, make it a great one, and remember to always…HONOR.THE.GIFT.
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