February 8, 2017, TGIW: Unhumping Hump Day…GrowFlex
By Darrell Gurney | Blog
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” –Bruce Lee
There’s a difference between growing in the wind and blowing in the wind.
We start out with a vision, we set goals, and we move towards their attainment.
By doing so, invite in every challenge and deficiency of being necessary to achieve those goals and fulfill that vision.
Many of us are swayed in some way or other by those challenges or demands for our upgraded beingness.
We think something is wrong and we get upset…in forms like doubt, anxiety, confusion. We start to blow in the wind.
Yet those very challenges are the environment which shape the tree.
Can anyone say a tree “should have” grown differently than it did? Based on environment, opportunity, and an inherent, unique pattern of design, it just grew.
People, plans and organizations often look different in the end from how they begin.
The point is: flexing, growing in the wind, to become.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon was quoted as saying, “We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”
Where can you grant yourself and your dreams some growflex today?
Got growflex?
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow your progress, you’re still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” –Tony Robbins