We have heard people talk about society. When we're talking as I just did, we often use the term "people" when we are discussing what our take is about what people do. Everyone is familiar with the inescapable use of the word "they." Well now, what does they mean? What does "people" mean?
When we discuss those things and try to give a faceless identity to something that's heard to identify, we are really talking about ourselves. As we go through and lament the events that occurred recently, and the events that may occur in the future, we must be mindful of the fact that none of us have done extensive research or have any idea about what anyone other than ourselves think.
As an extraordinary coach, you may find yourself doing the absolute same thing. You may find yourself repeating what you hear on the news. You may mind yourself repeating what you read in the newspapers. The question that I am putting to you is: What are you going to do? What contribution can you make? All of us in the success game understand that it might help us benefit our lives and our clients more if we would take a look at what everyone else is doing and do just the opposite. There is no shortage of people complaining about racism. There's no shortage of people alluding to the pundits. There's no shortage of people thinking of ways in which they can be victims. There's no shortage of people who are experiencing fear and disguising it in a number of different ways. I encourage you to do something different.
One of my favorite books, the Bible, talks about examining yourself when it's time to take communion. I suppose you can examine yourself in others points in your life as well, but why don't we daily examine ourselves and ask ourselves what are we doing to combat the ills of the world. We all know that death and life is in the power of the tongue. We know that what we say has a huge impact on what we do and what we get.
I am encouraging you to release the narrative about the maladies of society. I'm asking you to eliminate the need for you to find out what's going on. I'm asking you to consider how much of the news do you really have to know. That's a good question. Rather than doing that daily, weekly, hourly, ask yourself what are you doing. Everyone knows that forgiveness is a good idea, and the recent events in Charleston, South Carolina demonstrated the power of forgiveness. It demonstrated how people who incurred such tragedy were able to forgive.
What about you? Why don't you make a conscious decision to forgive? Forgive everyone. You don't do anybody any injustice by not forgiving them. You don't cheat them out of anything by not forgiving them. You cheat yourself. Forgiveness it not letting somebody get away with someone. Forgiveness is releasing yourself. To not forgive, to carry around unforgiveness is akin to you taking poison and expecting the other person to die, and they will not.
The focus of this blog is to make a conscious decision, take control of your own mind, eliminate fear from your mind, and do something. You do something. When you do something, share with others about what you have done and the good that you have done. Share with someone how you did something different from what the general population does. Because as long as you, and I'm speaking specifically to you as an extraordinary coach, as long as you continue to follow the prevailing narrative of woe is me, of racism is terrible, of this country has a lot of work to do with gun control, and as long as you continue to focus on those things, those things will be here.
Have the faith that things will get better and you make a decision to do something, not me. I'll handle me. You make a decision to do something. As always, I end my blog with the same words. If it's blessed you of it's helped you, please pass it on to someone that you care about, someone that you know, someone who needs encouragement to do something themselves rather than simply follow the prevailing narrative. Until next time, have a good time.
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