What holds you back from experiencing life more fully? I’m not speaking about one’s context, job, or financial situation. Within those constraints, what holds you back from experiencing life more fully? Discovering this is an inside job where we need the courage to look within ourselves and name the fears, biases, or false beliefs that we allow to guide our lives. It’s not a thirty minute job. It may take a while. If we keep the question, “What holds me back from experiencing life more fully?” we will discover the answers. Once we discover the answers, we can discard what is holding us back and begin to experience life more fully.
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Today’s Thought: Doing Our Part
Most problems can be solved if we set aside preconceived biases and work towards a common goal. It seems so easy. Why would anyone do anything else? On the way to the finish line, power, money, and unresolved anger gets in the way. The problems remain because of the lack of courage to set aside personal gain for the gain of all. It’s not helpless. We can do our part in our homes, places of work, and neighborhoods. We can lead the effort to define common goals benefiting everyone. We can call it out every time personal gain takes precedence over the gain of all. We have to do our part.
Thinking Out Loud ~ Setting Aside Biases
Looking Beyond Appearances
Saint-Exupéry in writes in The Little Prince, “I have serious reasons to believe that the planet where the little Prince came from is asteroid B-612. This asteroid was seen only once through the telescope, in 1909, by a Turkish astronomer. Then, he made a great demonstration of his discovery at an international Congress of astronomy. However, nobody believed him because of his costume. The grown-ups are like that. Fortunately, for the reputation of asteroid B-612, a Turkish dictator imposed on his people on pain of death, to dress like the Europeans. The astronomer remade his demonstration in 1920, in a very elegant garment. And this time, everybody accepted his opinion.”
NOTE: It is easy to judge people based on their appearance. If someone appears to be different from us we often allow our biases to rule over our reason. When we look beyond appearances and into the person we find something all together different. We discover someone much like ourselves. It’s better to set aside judgments and listen. We may learn something.
