One fine morning if you wake up in the jungle, would you look for your office shoes to go to the non-existent office and the attendant security, looking to sit down at your safe-in-the-hole desk?
An extreme metaphor, but true enough in our lives.
We don’t wake up in the jungle, but we don’t wake up to just another day either. We wake to a different day, a different story, a different project, a different document, a different launch, a different customer.
But most days, we ready ourselves for just another day.
Not a new day, not a new beginning. Just another day.
We carry our old notions, old habits, old learnings – The Old Highways in the Brain – and begin the new day as if it can take us to the next level of experience, exhilaration, growth and yes, income too. But then, we walk where we are – on a treadmill. Going nowhere in our minds, except ratcheting up our heart beats a bit to keep ourselves alive.
Unable to take us out of our own corner.
Unable to place ourselves in new shoes.
Unable to free think our minds.
I truly believe that all of us want to free think. Assuming for the moment that this is true, how do we help ourselves do it? ‘Cause it’s a learning, it’s about finding the door that opens us to the ability to free think. And the door is different for each.
Some I’ve listed, there would be more.
Fear of failure and a related reason – lacking in self-confidence – fear of contending with authority, fear of being laughed at, fear of being called a fool, fear of……… Can we for just a day in our lives set aside the mind numbing fear and let our minds hop, skip and jump?
Pressure that builds up in the confusion of vast amounts of previously unknown information and factors when we set out on a new task – until it all slowly becomes familiar and we just need to hang in there, juggling the balls mentally till they fall into a pattern – till the core, the sticky point reveals itself.
Beginner’s Block – Plenty to do with the reluctance to let go of our safe, known corner and begin anything new.
Arrogance – Every new thing is a place of ignorance to begin with. The inability to shrug off our I-am-Wise badge, go to people and learn from them from scratch and not let this ability diminish with age, time or labels.
Let’s take the first step of recognising our door. The key search can only come after that.
Poetry in Life 