If your heart is not moving you, your behaviors will only be an act of compliance rather than one of joyful commitment – Dr. Alexander Phiri
I find it amazing (sometimes, amusing) that many roam the earth with so much indifference. No passion. No love. No real hunger. Living each day and carrying on with rote simplicity (or, complexity, depending on who you are) but finding little, if any, significant meaning at the end of each day. And, honestly, once I am done musing, I am heart broken…
With infinite possibilities before us, and a finite supply of time for our journey on earth, it hurts me to see how we are impassioned about that which won’t last or matter in the long run: who wins the Super Bowl, Survivor, or American Idol. But to be asked about the condition of our relationships, or the state of our personal/professional growth, leads to blank stares. Ours has become a society in which out is in and up and is down – we seem to have advanced greatly, but grown so little
My good friend Alex said it perfectly: we live compliantly instead of with commitment. We follow the rules (as arbitrary as most of them are) and do what we’re told; but deep inside we want to follow our intuition…to break free and innovate. Until our minds and hearts are in sync, we spin our wheels and complain about feeling unfulfilled; sadly failing to realize that our bosses can’t and won’t do it for us…our spouses or significant others can’t do it for us…and another job or relationship won’t fix it.
Until we put first things first, our plight becomes a blight on our entire crop: our relationships suffer, our performance suffers, and our legacies become tainted. Until we put not only our backs into it but our hearts into it, we remain a pawn on someone else’s chess board – failing to realize that every pawn is a potential queen…
So…
…is your heart is the right place?
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