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If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish. ~Author Unknown
Kahlil Gibran said, “Love one another, but make not a bond of love… Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together; For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
Support and Challenge are incredibly powerful opposite ends of the same pole. We can play the business game two ways. 1. Support equals profit. 2. Challenge equals opportunity. Both can lead to growth or decline – profit or loss - as per natural cycles. Appreciation of both without judgment and therefore emotional attachment to either side of the same pole (Where is the profit in this challenge? – Where is the loss in this opportunity? – How do both sides add value to my business?) - is a great way to play this game. :-) Now substitute “business” for any of the other life games!
In my digging through old files and archives, opening boxes and diaries that have been closed for years, I just discovered a box of letters - not emails or texts , twitters or Facebook status updates but actual handwritten on paper letters - sent to me by various people (mainly you Michelle my cuz) in 1990/1 when I was pregnant with Sam. Isn't it strange that I would forget so much about these dark days in my life? Like my hard drive memory was completely wiped clean! I've just taken a trip back to that time in all these wonderful words and feel richer for these rediscovered treasures - ah yeah - and I see their light instead of all that gloom and darkness. Not throwing these out! They now form part of my Eagle's nest!