Just Do It (and Change It)
Posted by admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 10-03-2010
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Nike only had it half right. About 80% of life is about just showing up (or Just Do It), the other 20% is about changing destinations once you realize that you’ve arrived at the wrong location.
Those people who thrive in our society aren’t those who meet life head on, but those who flow with life and shift with the changing landscape.
So in order for you not to be just o.k. with your life , but successful, you must change your life analogy. It’s no longer o.k. to view life as a fight, or a battle. This only hardens your mindset, causing rigidity. Life, though, is not a dance either. Dancing, although fluid, is almost always jocular and carefree. Life, on the other hand, is not always any one thing.
Life must, instead, be viewed as a swim. Sometimes slow, sometimes rough, with the one constant being that those who wish to thrive must go with the flow.
Change your life’s analogy and change your life.
I really dig this. I especially like how you made the comparison to swimming. It suggests that life possesses a rhythm, but to ride this groove requires a complex and varied series of muscle relationships or in other words–some work!
Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s hard–the only constant is the set of physical laws that the water has no choice but to obey, the nature of how the water behaves is relative to circumstances beyond our control. Ironically, how we address these circumstances is entirely under our control which oddly, yet beautifully renders the diverse circumstances moot. Well, this depends on the strength of our resolve of course.
Okay, I’m out. Thanks for the uplifting post.
I couldn’t have said it better myself Spaceman. There’s not a thing we can do about the set of laws which govern the motion of the water, but if we struggle and fight the motion, we may perish. However, if we stay “in the wave” and flow, chances are we’ll not only live to see another day, but live to enjoy an experience different than the one we were experiencing before we entered the water because the water is a vehicle for transportation…