If I take time to reflect on what is happening in our world right now, I can identify a few things I would like to change. I can see where we have made errors in our ways and allowed the business and materialistic parts of life to draw our attention away from what really matters. Compassion and truth.
There are glaring representations of the truth in our current societies and in my observation, it seems we were merely barely surviving in a moral wasteland.
Looking ahead to 2021 I am beginning to focus on desired outcomes and ways to improve on the experience we are having. These questions have been on my mind:
What do we Preserve?
Where do we Innovate?
What will stay and be cherished?
What needs to be modernized?
This is not a great reset, new normal or other strategic stench.
It Is Human Pondering
There is a dark cloud over many people out there. Many of us are operating in the zone of fear where panic, irritation, blame and judgement are guiding principles. Fear perpetuates fear.
Some individuals are coping a little better and are seeking information to learn from what is happening and why. Guided by their own values and seeking opportunity to improve their situation.
The Few Helping Many
Then there are the few helping many who have already faced challenges grown and continue to grow this year. Those who are thinking of others, appreciating their life and expressing gratitude while leading the way to opportunity.
In this waterfall of conditions some have come to understand and invest energy in what they are able to control and triaging those things that take energy and cannot be controlled.
Specifically, what can you act on that is within your control today?
Might we start with our attitude, our reactions to others or change the feed of information coming into our households.
If you have maintained objectivity you might observe desensitization and distorted realities in people around you. Some leaders are losing effectiveness under the burden of information that comes with command-and-control leadership. The concept of burden of information and choosing your battles is a militaristic view of the world. All governments and corporations have been trained in the past 5 to 10 years on disaster preparedness and this militaristic command-and-control structure. A structure that prevents humans from thinking like humans. Leaders should choose to think that information shared more broadly might be a necessity now. All the little power mongers were lined up well in advance for this.
What are we missing? That answer is quite simple.
Compassion.
We have failed collectively to remember one of the most important human gifts. Compassion.
If you are feeling that people are sucking on purpose just to piss you off, I recommend this video and anything by Brene Brown. This video addresses Empathy, which is not as powerful as compassion.
She says quite elegantly that it is important to consider that people are doing the best they can.
Governments have forgotten their role and disrespected boundaries. The media continues to violate boundaries.
Journalists and politicians have become ensnared in a symbiotic web of lies that misleads the public.
Peter Vanderwicken
People, including me, can have a hard time establishing and maintaining boundaries in close relationships. How on earth does a person establish boundaries with their government or the media? How do I stand up for self with these organizations?
It Starts With Understanding The Truth
The truth of what they represent. The answer to boundaries with media is quite simple, switch off the media feed. Seek out alternate sources of information and engage your power of thought.
The government, how do we set boundaries with them? On this we must start with finding the power, who is actually pulling the strings? Who is preventing government from representing its people? Once we are clear on this, we can begin to answer the initial questions on what stays and what goes.
Start by finding the source of control, the center of power.
As for your boundaries and setting them I must quote Brene Brown. What boundaries need to be in place for me to stay in my integrity and make the most generous assumptions about you?
Are you in your integrity or acting in ways that are out of line with your values?
Boundaries Are Respect
You have a right to be respected and a responsibility to treat others with respect.
Does the media respect you?
Does your government respect you?
2021 is an opportunity to face the truth of the conditions on earth and decide what stays and what goes. To do this properly we must deal with truth and fact and evaluate through our values.
Move yourself through the waterfall of conditions to regain your objective personal power and act with integrity while we debate the newly available facts to create a more powerful experience on our planet.
An enlightened experience.
Waterfalls wouldn’t sound so melodious if there were no rocks in their way.
Rishabh Gautam
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