What stops you from moving forward? What areas in work or life need you to be more flexible, resilient and more aware of progress over perfection?
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Dear Colette,
I have an extreme problem. Family members are controlling my life to a complete destruction. This is a confirmed fact. I refuse to just be trampled by them but I do not know what to do. I have tried everything to fight their negative influences and lies but they continue prevail in their efforts to devastate my earning ability and now my health. Please help me by providing an opinion on how I could protect myself from them. – No More Control
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How are you at letting go of control? In this article David Thomas Wright distinguishes what we can’t control in life (rain) from what we can (umbrella) so we may be more self-aware, responsible, and empowered. With this distinction we may find ourselves more adaptable, resilient, and happier.
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Getting a handle on that which does not serve us is one of the greatest personal growth challenges that many of us will face in life. Achieving control over such matters often pushes us to take steps we never thought ourselves capable of, a journey that often includes both victories and setbacks on our way to attaining proficiency. One man’s search for that goal is the subject of one of this year’s most anticipated releases, director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master.”
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What, exactly, makes us who we are? Are we merely an amalgamation of biochemical components randomly thrown together, susceptible to the ravages of time? An arrangement of thought patterns organized around some unidentified driving force? A collection of memories bound together by some unseen unifying element? Or is it some combination of the foregoing? Those are some of the underlying questions raised for consideration in the delightful new comedy, “Robot & Frank.”
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When experience is primarily harmonious, we have the sense of being held, either internally through our own equilibrium, or externally through the alignment of supportive outside forces. With too much rest, we lose the stimulation necessary for development. With too much stress, we lose the rest necessary for development. In harmony we have both.
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True love is about expression and being free flowing; it is about being ‘You’ and unconditional love
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We all know them, we have seen them at school, in work and we see them playing politics on TV and in the news. The egoholic needs to control people…