Thank you in advance for coming back for another day of #TrashItThursday. Today I want to talk about throwing away those figurative massive chips you carry on your shoulders. One of those shoulders carrying your lack of patience and the other shoulder carrying your inability to know when it is time to be silent.
The first example I want to give you involves patience or should I say the lack there of patience. I want to do this by first telling you a little story. I might be missing some elements of this story but my point is the important part not necessarily the exact facts. So, in China, there are farmers who plant these seeds and unlike regular seeds that sprout within days, these seeds do not. People use to ask these farmers why they wasted precious time watching over what seemed to be nothing. The farmers ignored the nay sayers and patiently tended to these seeds by watering them every single day. They did this for five years. They were not stressed that day after day and year after year they did not see even a little sign of life, they just calmly and methodically kept up the ritual. During that fifth year though, something amazing happened. The seeds sprouted and before you knew it, the farmers and the nay sayers were looking at an eighty feet bamboo trees. They grew larger than any tree that other farmers had planted and watched grow in the same time span. It almost seemed magical. You see, patience does not make you a pushover, weak or vulnerable. Patience allows you to take deep breaths and properly assess situations. This in turn lessons the probability of making costly mistakes and time consuming do overs. In many instances, patience will yield you greater results than you would have otherwise received, just like the bamboo trees in my story. So stop rushing and being impatient or you just might miss out on something really great.
Silence is the second example that I want to talk about. Most people want to talk and they want to make sure that everyone hears them. They feel that this makes them appear more powerful and in control. Well, I am going to tell you that in my experience with people, those that are continuously talking are the ones who have self esteem issues and often they lack integrity and inner strength to be able to control themselves and therefore they are not able to take control of necessary situations when needed. One of the strongest attributes of someone who can refrain from talking is that if you are silent long enough, there is great possibility for you to learn something. You may learn how to do something new or you may learn that the person talking is a person who should not be trusted. Flapping flips can only spew what they already know whereas a listening ear can increase their knowledge base and therefore become more powerful. So, learn to listen often rather than just talking and you will continually empower yourself.
I am no a philosopher by any means but in my opinion, there are certain attributes people need if they want to succeed in life. I have more than twenty five years of experience working with people and helping them build and grow businesses so today after a personal experience I had to deal with, I thought this topic was important to get out there to whomever may need to read about it.
As always, I want to continue to stress the importance of learning something everyday. It does not have to be work related, it can be something personal as well. Anything, as long as you are learning. Today I am going to suggest a book that I have recommended in the past because I feel it flows with my blog post topic. The book is called The Four Agreements and I am sure you can get a copy at your local library or maybe you can borrow it from a friend. If neither option is available, here is a link to get your own copy from Amazon>> https://amzn.to/2VqDUsX
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