Choices - Negative Monkey or Gorilla?
July 14th 2008 07:11
Ok, you are absolutely hanging for the answer. The winner of the competition, waiting for that big break...You count down the hours and minutes until the email is due. Countless of the amout of time you log on the site and off..
It happens..then the let down..it is not you! Somehow you missed the mark or didn't hit the winning criteria. You feel flat and deflated. Like a tyre that is shredded on the side of the highway after being dragged for a hundred feet or so.
Somehow, you need to get back in touch with yourself. Stop kicking yourself because you didn't win the competition.
Yes, guilty of the above. Yet it really isn't that important winning the competition or not! My response to the outcome is important. through the thinking and images I conjure up in my mind, have a large lot to say how I will go in the future. (Thats a long ramble).
It is like this..imagine a small cheerful monkey sitting on your shoulder. When you are happy and everything is "cruisy", going well, the little fellow is happy. Now when you get angry he does the opposite. The more negative you feed it, the bigger it gets. It turns from a cute monkey, into a full-sized gorilla! If you don't stop the negative train of thought, who know the monstrous monster it could turn into?
My point is..it comes to choice. You can't control a lot in life, you can always choose how you will respond. You can make a simple decision and not realize the huge impact it will have!
Freelance and individual entrepreneurs, consultants and any industry, we all experience this at some stage in our working careers.
Some people take time off to develope new ideas and start new lives. Others add to their already career and go forward.
Our careers are like the pendulum of a huge clock. The pendulum swings up and down, back and forth, time goes on and people come and go.
Learning to choose where you want to go, deciding the kind of life you want to live, be the person you want to be, starts within you.
It happens..then the let down..it is not you! Somehow you missed the mark or didn't hit the winning criteria. You feel flat and deflated. Like a tyre that is shredded on the side of the highway after being dragged for a hundred feet or so.
Somehow, you need to get back in touch with yourself. Stop kicking yourself because you didn't win the competition.
Yes, guilty of the above. Yet it really isn't that important winning the competition or not! My response to the outcome is important. through the thinking and images I conjure up in my mind, have a large lot to say how I will go in the future. (Thats a long ramble).
It is like this..imagine a small cheerful monkey sitting on your shoulder. When you are happy and everything is "cruisy", going well, the little fellow is happy. Now when you get angry he does the opposite. The more negative you feed it, the bigger it gets. It turns from a cute monkey, into a full-sized gorilla! If you don't stop the negative train of thought, who know the monstrous monster it could turn into?
My point is..it comes to choice. You can't control a lot in life, you can always choose how you will respond. You can make a simple decision and not realize the huge impact it will have!
Freelance and individual entrepreneurs, consultants and any industry, we all experience this at some stage in our working careers.
Some people take time off to develope new ideas and start new lives. Others add to their already career and go forward.
Our careers are like the pendulum of a huge clock. The pendulum swings up and down, back and forth, time goes on and people come and go.
Learning to choose where you want to go, deciding the kind of life you want to live, be the person you want to be, starts within you.
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I am not the only to experience a lot of these things. Four children of my own, three step daughters, 3 grandchildren plus parents make for a very busy christmas. I am only 37 and wouldn't change a thing. No matter what the chaos..
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