By Irene Rivka Becker, Chief Success Officer, Just Coach It, www.justcoachit.com
In an era when Marshall McCluhan’s visionary forecast of the mid 1970’s of the creation of a global village has become a reality…The new economy never came to be, nor did the four day work week that was forecast thirty years ago…
The need, greed and ego that has destroyed every fiefdom, kingdom, empire and more recently felled once great corporations…
Is alive and well in our lives, communities and our workplaces.
Meanwhile, at a time when the average North American and European has more personal power and access to communication, knowledge and technology than ever before…
We are living in a box because, too many of us are hiding our discontent and despair under our latest material acquisition or the badge of having a career that has led us to a 24/7 work week.
Too many of us forgotten the dream.How?By taking the path of least resistance and in so doing accepting and hence contributing to the destruction of our quality of life and the relationships we cherish.
And, while taking the path of least resistance is understandable, as it is the first path that human beings see and often take…
Taking the path of least resistance means living giving up our dreams by accepting a quality of life, a quality of relationships that does not lead to the meaning, purpose, passion and fulfillment we need.
It means living faster but not necessarily better to acquire all that will become irrelevant when we leave this earth.
Some of us, many of us have no choice but to go to jobs that we dislike and live on a 24/7 work schedule…
A growing number of us are just stuck where we are because we have traded our personal power and our happiness by taking the path of least resistance.
As a great man once said, it is time to become the change we seek.
And doing so does not mean that we have to cut up our tie, get rid of our navy blue business suit, quit our job, our marriage or leave our community…
It means that we have to stop, pause and reflect upon the purpose of our life, and reflect on whether we are building a path to our best self, our highest ideals, our noblest thoughts, emotions and actions…
Most of us will decide to embrace the status quo, by taking the path of least resistance.But some of us are not.I know I work with the some of us every day!
And, it is those courageous human beings who have made the decision to step out of the box, people who have decided that they need to not simply fill their pocketbooks but also fill their souls who will change their lives and in so doing change will also help to change the world.
Idealism?You bet.But, it is that spark of idealism, that quest to discover and engage our noblest thoughts, emotions and actions that can help us realize our true power at the speed of change and in the face of chaos.
Irene Rivka Becker |Just Coach It |The 3Q Edge™
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