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Resilience

7/23/2017

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Image: I have been playing with Black Out Poetry. You take newspaper articles and find the words to create a poem. I love it. It is more centering and focus creating than I expected, plus - it's fun!

Seth Godin was talking on Tim Ferris’ podcast about an initial online classroom that had been created from an audience who already supported him -  but people were leaving. When he looked closer he realized - and I am paraphrasing, you can listen here - that ‘Without the social pressure to perform, when it got hard, people left.’

That really got me thinking. The presence of pressure, or the presence of social accountability does not have to be utilized as a task master of fear, yet it is a presence we respond to and sometimes aspire from.

Corey and I were talking about how we are held together by pressure - atmospheric pressure. Without it: poof. Gone. Without a focal point we drift, and one of the most potent horizons to fix your life upon is service, in some way not just chasing for our own selves, but in service to some thing. Even if that is our creativity or beauty making -- it is still an offering.

I was in a recent meeting about what skill sets are missing in the workplace, and resoundingly, whether in schools, boardrooms or zoom rooms, the missing herb is resilience. The stick-with-it-ness to make ourselves grow. The commitment to be carved (asDawn Smelser phrased) - staying long after the initial high, the initial ease;  this is what we are missing.

And I would argue we are missing it so much some of us have cut out enjoyment as a measurable element altogether.  Meaning we don't have the stick-with-it-ness to believe that it can create enjoyment in our life, so we either forgo enjoyment or flit from flower high to flower high - without staying long enough to gather nectar.

I was recently talking with a coaching client, an educator and aspiring writer, and when we were aiming to address why she cannot find time to write, she said : “Well, enjoyment isn’t enough of a reason to schedule it.”

And then she heard herself.
And then we made a plan.
And now she was been writing 10 days going.

And guess what, she said: “It’s harder than I thought, some days I didn’t even like what I wrote - and it is going really fast and I love it.”

That’s resilience.

Keep going - or help someone else up. Same same.

“The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?” - Anne Lamott
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Mandy link
8/1/2017 08:19:42 am

I kind of understand that teacher who said "enjoyment is not enough of a reason to schedule it". I mean I'd hate to go through life never doing anything I enjoy, but sometimes the things you don't enjoy are what you have to do to get from point A to point B, keep food on the table, a roof over your head, gas in your car (assuming you live somewhere were you need the use of your car). I am glad that she found a reason to take up writing, though. Sometimes it's enough to just commit to doing it, even if you don't think you have time. :)

<a href="http://aandj8804.blogspot.com">With Love</a>,
Mandy

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Pam link
11/14/2017 12:37:25 pm

So often is the case I don’t like writing but like having written. And truly, one reason I sit in public spaces with a typewriter is for the pressure.

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Kate link
11/14/2017 07:26:54 pm

Itʻs all about the friction of creation.

Kate Brenton link
8/1/2017 08:52:54 am

Thanks, Mandy. I agree with you - we have to have the resilience and capacity to know how to get from Point A to Point B AND it is the commit to create Space for (change, beauty, whatever...) it is the alchemical process of that commitment that is the greatest endeavor. Thanks for stopping by!
Kate

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