....So goes the song by U2. Life has the ability to hijack us if we are not self aware. Circumstances, people ‘stuff’, ‘things’, can all silently rob us of our joy, our energy. It can leave us in an unproductive place, a place of desert and inertia. You often only know it when you feel tired or stuck or just not wanting to get out of bed.
We’ve noticed these symptoms creeping up on us over the past few days. So, today we took ourselves in hand and by lunch time things were different. We got hold of the pen and made sure we were writing the story we wanted to write.
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| Sink = water where I washed my feet prior to my bath. Bath = 'clean' water where I'm about to have a bath - JB |
So, what did we learn today?
2. Pay attention to the negative energy around you and therefore draining you
3. Have the courage to change something if you are not in a good space
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| The kitchen at the orphanage |
4. When you don’t want to get out of bed then …….get up!!!…. and go somewhere different. Drag yourself into a different space
5. It’s not for you to sort out the ‘noise’ going on around you but it is your job to get away from it ,if it having an unhelpful impact
6. Go back to basics – remind yourself of what gives you joy.
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| Maasai boy with his cattle |
8. Lead. It’s your job to lead your life. No one else’s.
9. Lead every meeting you go into – have the pen; use the meeting to write your story rather than freewheel and hope for a better outcome. No one is going to give you the better outcome.
10. Don’t work with people who you don’t like or who don’t have integrity
- TW
