“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.”
Barry Demp
►An Executive Coach Who Empowers High-Integrity Successful Business Leaders to Achieve Personal Excellence.◄
The word surrender usually has a negative connotation.
It often points to weakness and being beaten by someone or something much stronger than us.
Much of the time, many of us find ourselves fighting for a just cause — or against some other adversary — when our visions and values are in opposition.
Even the wind, on occasion, has us leaning in against its force, to head in a direction we wish to go.
There are far more things in life that we do not control that the things we do.
Riding the winds of change like a hot air balloon — or adapting ourselves to the wind as in sailing — can still take us to beautiful places with peace, freedom, and delight.
EXERCISE:
Where are you currently fighting the winds of change?
How would surrendering to these currents and letting them take you lead you to some wonderful places you never considered?
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Today's quote by Toni Morrison, late American novelist