Mondays Are for Trying New Things
When I write something that moves me, when I smile at a worried over presentation, when I flesh out a particularly elegant idea, a high joy overflows my boundaries. I share that feeling with a friend who does the same when the joy of accomplishment is shining through her.
And when I’m overwhelmed with a problem or misstep, a bad hair day or a dark dead end. I dial through to that same friend again.
This time it’s not joy I’m sharing. It’s a state of confusion, a search for solutions, a total frustration with my inability to make things connect in the direction that was my intention.
The answer is get in return is always the same, “What would you say to someone else? You’d be brilliant, wouldn’t you? So go be brilliant for yourself.”
One idea: Be as brilliant for you as you would be for everyone else.
Every time I hear that, I shake my head in recognition. My outlook changes and a world of solutions opens up.
One idea. I’m learning to say it to myself.
I still call though because I like to hear her say it.
We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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If you’re ready to change the world, send me your thoughts in a guest post. Feel free to take the gorgeous Change the World image up there that Sandy designed back to your blog. Or help yourself to this one.
. Email me about what you’re doing or what we might do. Let’s change the world one bit at a time together. Together it can’t take forever.