Finding your balance

 Finding you balance

When a child is learning to walk, they have this tug of war with gravity.  This tug of war becomes the centermost truth of their reality. The desire to stand is fought by this unseen force that appears to desire only one thing, to bring them down. Their struggle with this force strengthens their legs and guides them to find their balance.  Learning to walk would never have happened if that struggle with gravity had never existed.

As we continue through life, we too often have these struggles with “unseen forces”.  Forces that appear to only have one agenda, to bring us down.  If we forget our goal and instead focus on the problem, will we find our balance? If we change our focus from our goals and move it to center on the problem, will we become stronger?  Now please understand that I am not ignoring problem-solving.  But problem-solving only takes place when our focus remains on the goal.  The goal never changes only the method of achieving the goal. 

Finding your balance is all about focus.  A child simply continues to struggle with the problem until they arrive at a solution. Standing.  They start by holding on to everything, strengthening their legs, making them strong enough to hold their weight.  Then slowly they begin to let go and take bold steps into the wasteland between points where they can hold onto something.  Many times, in our lives we too must come to the point where we are willing to enter the waist land trusting our newly learned skills to propel us forward toward the goal we have set. 

Do we still have the courage to find our balance, or have we decided to settle for what we have already achieved?  Are we still bold enough and focused on our goals?  Or have we become content to simply sit on our current success?  We remember the struggles of old, the bumps and bruises we earned learning our current skills.  We remember the unseen forces that were at the center of our struggles. But we often forget that without those forces, and those struggles, we would not be who we are today. 

Find your balance, it was worth the struggle then and I believe it is still worth it today.

Blessings!