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G'day Grasshoppers Sorry I've been a little absent lately, it's been a busy time for me. I have a bunch of stuff to tell you but I'll leave it for a day or two when I do a me-dot-com update. Hope you had a good weekend and did your best to avoid the searing sun (and for our Northern Hemisphere folk, the searing snow!). Right now Melbourne is HOT and I'm spending my nights either swimming in my own sweat or battling frostbite thanks to my overly efficient air conditioner and my inability to operate anything mechanical. Went to see Gran Torino (Clint's new movie) this weekend and thankfully there were no dying dogs (as in Marley and Me), so I managed to refrain from embarrassing myself. But what a great movie! Not what you might think for a Clint movie and it has equal appeal for both the blokes and the chicks. It's my movie of the summer (yep, it's summer over here) and it gets four and a half stars on the world famous Harper film-o-meter. I apologise for slipping into film reviewer mode, I didn't actually know that was going to come out when I started this intro. Perhaps I was giving my inner film critic a voice. For our non-Aussie friends, today is a public holiday here in the land down under because it's Australia Day; the day of the year where we (apparently) commemorate the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, marking the start of the British colonisation of Australia. Or in reality, just another day where we over-eat, over-drink, and over-expose our skin to the sun, while standing around a barbeque, talking shit and not really thinking about the First Fleet at all. Or our criminal ancestors. Oh well, so much for history. Enjoy your week, be the change and on with today's installment here at me-dot-com...
Put up your hand if you are any of the following:
1. The Procrastinator 2. The Self-Saboteur 3. The Over-Thinker
Wow, that's a bunch of hands. If by some chance you are all three, put up both hands and possibly a foot. Now, leave them up until I say so. And yes, that means you up the back with all the issues. And you with the weird hair.
Suck it up Princess
So, why am I specifically identifying these three people today? Because they are everywhere and they stand in the way of potential, progress, change, connection, happiness, growth, enlightenment and success (whatever that is for each of us). They inhabit our schools, our corporations, our places of worship, our homes and most significantly, our minds. They are you and me. Er, I. Well, sometimes at least. Of course we all have the capacity to over-think, under-do and shoot ourselves in the foot on a regular basis, but unless we want to spend the next ten years (or should I say, another ten years?) in a holding pattern, we might need to make a few changes, take a few risks and suck it up (Princess) from time to time.
Q. What do all three of these people have in common?
A. Fear. They are scaredy cats.
The Fear Factor
These three are controlled, if not negatively impacted in some way, by fear. On a regular basis. Fear of failure. Fear of being humiliated. Fear of rejection (a biggie). Fear of poverty. Fear of isolation and loneliness (another biggie). Fear of criticism. And last but not least, fear of pain. That's right, they don't like hurting so they seek a comfortable and pain-free existence. Good luck with that. Fear keeps them in that emotional prison; the very place which keeps them miserable, frustrated and compromised. Unfortunately, comfort and personal growth don't generally go hand in hand.
The Carob Feel
Let's be honest, many of us are champions at wasting our significant talent, time and opportunities. Some of us are masters of going through the motions. Simulated living I call it; looks like life, but isn't. Kind of like when people think you're eating chocolate but it's actually carob. Bummer. They think you're living a life of chocolate decadence, when in reality you're drowning in a sea of carob. Does your life ever have that carob feel about it?
These three people have a gift for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, for not doing what they should (for years on end) and if there's a way to shoot themselves in the foot, they'll find it. If there's two ways, they'll find both.
* Okay, you can put your hand(s) down now. And your foot. Even you with the goofy face up the back. Oops, that's me.
Knew I should have stayed home...
Today's post is the result of an impromptu conversation I had with an acquaintance (don't even know her name) at the front of my house yesterday morning (Sunday). There's a small percentage of the population that you simply shouldn't ask "so how's life", unless you really want to know, or you have a spare hour. Or two. This lady is the poster girl for all three personalities and seemed somewhat perplexed and amused by my enthusiasm, my optimism, my positive attitude and my solution-focused mindset.
"I think you're over-simplifying a rather complex issue" she told me as we discussed the notion of her changing careers and leaving the job she hates. "Hmm, well I think you're complicating something that's actually quite simple. Not necessarily painless, but simple nonetheless", I replied.
No matter how much sense I made or how much logic I injected into the conversation, she didn't want to know about it. The more sense I made, the more defensive, emotional and reactive she became. I could smell the fear.
Another ten-point strategy. Or not.
As I was thinking about writing this post, I considered that perhaps I should come up with yet another razzle-dazzle, ten-point strategy to help us all over-come procrastination, self-sabotage and over-thinking. But then two things came to mind: (1) I'm sick of writing ten-point strategies that people will read but rarely apply and (2) we don't need a ten-point strategy; we only need one point and hear it is...
Face your fears.
Not later. Not next week. Not when it's more convenient. Not when 'the time is right'. Not when all the planets have aligned. Not when it's more practical or comfortable. No, now. Stop bullshitting yourself. Stop compromising. Stop rationalising, justifying and explaining. And stop with all the excuses. You might be fooling you, but you're not fooling the rest of us. The truth is that most of us know exactly what we need to do, but often what we need to do (1) ain't what we want to do (what we're comfortable with) and (2) scares the crap out of us.
Newsflash: Things don't "work themselves out", we do.
*You might wanna put that on your fridge and look at it every morning. Or perhaps staple it to your forehead.
How often do we hear people wheel out that old chestnut? Talk about a stupid cop-out. Talk about delusional thinking. The "things will work themselves out" paradigm is the kind of self-limiting, irresponsible thinking that keeps many of us trapped in a reality we despise. It's akin to me buying all the materials, resources and tools I need to build a house, putting them all on my block of land and then standing back and waiting for the house to build itself. Houses don't build themselves and things don't work themselves out.
You're big now
It's your life right? Then you sort it out. You step up to the plate. You be totally responsible. You make the decisions. You take the chances. You do the work. You get uncomfortable. You face those fears. You learn what you need to. And stop looking for the approval and permission of others. You don't need it; you're big now. And if this all sounds like too much work or something you would rather place in the 'too hard' basket, then complain no more, lower your standards, downgrade your dreams a little and enjoy your carob.
M&M anyone?
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P.S. Just found out that I will be hosting a four hour talk-back show on SEN (Sports Entertainment Network) here in Melbourne tonight (Monday) from 7-11 local time. The phone number is (03) 9429 1116 if you're up for an on-air chat. You can listen to the show by clicking here and following the links.
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