Have you given any of these a shot?
If not, pick one.
It will make a great first step towards whatever song won’t stop playing in your chest.
You can approach your moments and your days with one of two postures.
The first posture is one of multiplication. Here you seek to enlarge your worldview, raise up those around you, experience and pursue growth, and increase your overall awareness. Another aspect of beauty also unfolds simultaneously here as you grow your capacities which further insures your ability to hold MORE of your approaching experiences. If you were to graph this posture, the trajectory would be up and to the right via hand-holding unity. If you were to pie chart this posture, the entire pie would be growing, not just your piece/good/worldview.
The other choice is a posture of division. Here, everything becomes an opportunity for some form of divisive warfare with opinionated guns shooting scare tactic bullets. The major problem here is that not only are you dividing everything and everybody, but you also are divided…which means we don’t get ALL of you.
Question: Why would you choose to ‘divvy’ out nametags showcasing another’s difference over handing out permission slips encouraging one’s divine uniqueness?
Alas, may we be the kind of people that multiply, enlarge, and grow those we come into contact with.
Will you choose to contribute or will you just consume?
Will you just be bitter or will you choose to become better?
Will choose to work your way or will you just make a wish?
Peace, joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment is a choice…not a coin flip.
What if you led with what you are for in lieu of what you are against?
What if you began each interaction with those you cross paths with in the world with a ‘yes’?
What if creativity, for the purpose of enjoyment, was the purpose of your life, work, hobbies, and relationships?
What if compliment replaced critique as the soundtrack of your lips?
What if?
Soon you’ll see tulips starting to bloom.
There’s a 100% chance that someone planted the bulb and there’s 100% chance that SomeOne made music in the dirt and choreographed the bloom.
There’s your good news: Co-creation isn’t the name of the game…It’s the name, reality, and beauty of life.
Ashton.Gustafson 