OK we are in to the second quarter of 2011 and I *still* haven’t let go of 2010 yet…the post is still being planned.
Pretty much events of March have been momentous. I mean it’s not every day one moves house. I think that’s the big thing about March. A whole new space, a whole new set of problems and whole new side to my learning.
This month was also a reflection of the stress that changing one’s living arrangements puts on a person. I found myself thinking, acting and reacting in ways that I don’t normally.
That and a reminder from someone close to me – ‘you can’t control everything’.
Shame about that.
March also saw a contribution to my community in an interesting way. Speaking about things that *never* normally get spoken about. ‘Filling In the Cracks‘ was by all accounts a success.
No pressure then.
That was March.
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01 Mar: Discover, develop and embrace what you’re great at.
02 Mar: Sometimes life happens all at once. That’s when you know you’re growing.
03 Mar: Eloquence is saying what there is to say with as few words as is necessary.
04 Mar: It’s not all black and white, just shades of grey.
05 Mar: Stuff is easy to accumulate but harder to offload.
06 Mar: It had to start somewhere. Someone started the ball rolling. Who was it?
07 Mar: Is it cause then effect? Or just effect then effect?
08 Mar: We are all human regardless of what’s on the outside.
09 Mar: We are more like our parents than we realise. But we still have the capacity to change what happens next.
10 Mar: You can only change the rules of the game if you play by them first.
11 Mar: Breaking the rules means you have to acknowledge you’re playing a game. (If you’re playing a game that means it has rules.)
12 Mar: Some say it’s all a game anyway. Others say it’s more important than that. Which means they don’t play very much.
13 Mar: Your life doesn’t depend on anything. It just is.
14 Mar: It always works out just the way *someone* intended.
15 Mar: Knowing when to walk away can make *all* the difference.
16 Mar: Our deeper intentions give rise to more of our lives than we know. Question is – what are our deeper intentions?
17 Mar: Why is it easier to follow than lead? Oh yeah no thinking, commitment, creativity or risk required!
18 Mar: Nothing new ever got created without someone taking a risk.
19 Mar: Impatience is not a virtue.
20 Mar: When you absolutely need to you can punch harder and run faster than you think.
21 Mar: Sometimes I behave *just* like my dad. Sometimes I *really* don’t. The point is I do have a choice.
22 Mar: Forgive your mistakes and clean up your mess. That’s competence.
23 Mar: Forgive others’ mistakes and clean up others’ mess. That’s mastery.
24 Mar: Have patience with yourself. Everyone else does.
25 Mar: Somehow something being inevitable sounds different to something being certain.
26 Mar: Nothing has to be inevitable. Try saying it with the emphasis on the word ‘nothing’; then on ‘has’; then on ‘inevitable’. Now choose.
27 Mar: I waste time.
28 Mar: Learning doesn’t have to be difficult but the best learning is challenging.
29 Mar: There is no *particular* way that teaching in class should look. But people expect it to be *their* way.
30 Mar: Unless you measure it, you have no idea if you’re making progress.
31 Mar: I *know* I can choose how I react to something but I don’t always *act* like it.
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I am the source.
James D'Souza 