Weight lifting
Feb 11, 2021
In Reinventing Yourself, How to Become the Person You’ve Always Wanted to Be, Steve Chandler makes many distinctions between "owners" (who are at cause in their lives) and victims (who believe themselves to be the victims of circumstances).
One of the distinctions is how they approach problems or challenges in life.
Owners, he writes, see problems as bodybuilders see weight: more resistance to build a life with. It’s resistance training, and it feels good.
Victims, on the other hand, don’t want to lift that weight. They look at weights with horror, and they look at problems as betrayals.
The sad tragedy is that the same energy that could be going into problem-solving is used by the victim for problem-avoidance. It takes an ongoing mental effort to push problems out of the mind. It is real work to constantly redirect the spotlight of consciousness away from life so that it shines only on distractions.
Do you ever find yourself spending time and energy struggling with the way things are?
- Winter weather
- Covid
- Lockdown
- Homeschooling
It takes quite a bit of energy, right?
The same energy that we could be using to find creative solutions to the situations in which we find ourselves.
What if approach these challenges the same way that an athlete approaches their workouts? KNOWING that it is only by lifting these metaphorical weights that strength is created.
