Making the Essential Enjoyable & Easy
Making Monday
I've heard it said that how we feel on Mondays is one of the clearest indicators of life satisfaction. Here is a quick thought on how to make Monday—and every day—work better...
Knowing Your North
My dad studied wilderness survival. I remember him talking once about orienteering training.
“It's not that hard to get where you're going,” he said, “if you have a good map and know which direction is North.”
He was a master of understatement in so many ways. I certainly wouldn't set myself loose in the woods with only that sentence as a guide, but I fully grasp his meaning.
I have since learned to not set myself loose in this life without having the equivalent.
I've tried living without a good map or a direction calibrated to the stars.
The results were predictable: things I thought I wanted didn't appear and things I knew I didn't want accumulated.
There are many ways to draw a map and to locate North. As part of my End the Fight approach, I'm always looking for how to maximize outputs with the least inputs.
In other words, how to find the easiest, most enjoyable but still very effective ways to do things.
In that spirit, I'll offer a few sentence starters for you to consider. I have found these to have remarkable power to reveal direction.
Have a seat in a comfortable place with your favorite non-toxic beverage and make some notes, completing the following phrases.
Speaking from the perspective of my highest potential and greatest good…
I am…
I embody…
I cultivate…
I serve…
I practice…
These phrases approach the question from slightly different angles.
Some may speak to you more clearly than others, but regardless, taken together they point toward your personal North—who you are, what you are about, and what is essential to you.
And once you know your direction, mapping gets much easier.
Maybe even fun. ;-)
Together, let's end the fight to change—
Delmar
