Possibilities are endless! An exciting thought – certainly keeps me on my toes and this week has been full-on keeping up! It’s good to remember that with all the opportunities and the busyness it brings we can still create opportunities for essentials like taking time out! So I’ve been prioritising my time out and exercising this week, when it could have been pushed to the side (easily!) and I really enjoyed my swimming this morning. (Of course I still have some emails to catch up on!)
I’m off to Orange tomorrow with clients and friends to speak at Women, Wine & Wisdom – the third of the “Women, Wine & Wellbeing” series I’ve spoken at, with my dear friend Mary Brell – a very inspiring woman who created this series of events for regional women. More on that later – I’m still pulling it all together! Just thought I’d share some ponderings I wrote earlier in the week… hope it’s useful! Love Kerrie
Have you ever been really clear on the outcome you wanted – but been delivered a completely different and sometimes unappealing outcome – to find that it was actually better than you really wanted? I have often. This is why I’ve learned and continue to learn to be detached from the outcome. Let’s just go in open minded, core values guiding (such as generosity, authenticity, empowerment) and see what happens. I’ve been thrown some ugly looking outcomes that soon after I’d been so thankful for. If the door hadn’t been slammed in my face I wouldn’t have seen the gorgeous French doors to my left.
I find it useful to step back and look at the bigger picture. Is this outcome so, so important? Can you take this path with your core values intact, being true to yourself? What other possibilities are out there? I’ve discovered that possibilities are everywhere. Like the air we breathe but we don’t see evidence of it until we start looking.
Have a wonderful weekend, think big, and remember to make your mum feel oh-so-special!
Tags: big picture, Learning, opportunities, possibilities, wine, wisdom, women
May 21, 2008 at 12:43 am |
Wow! You couldn’t have said it better… this, i think, is my biggest life lesson. To understand the nature attachment and to get rid of that attachment as much as is possible…
We had a wonderful insight here in our SA office earlier this week (while procrastinating on the stacks of e-mails we had to do)… attachment is rooted in fear, and this world is driven by fear.
Think about the outcome you wanted, the only reason you become so attached to that outcome is because you attach your identity to it. So, if you dont get that particular outcome, you aren’t succesful, you are less worthy, etc.,
The truth is, these things and these outcomes are external and your true worth is not dependent on it. So, the answer is to live in faith because your value and your greatness is untouchable! Just a thought…