Today's
Meditation:
Have
you ever balked at doing something that you knew you should
do because you were afraid that it might prove to be too
hard or take far longer than the effort was really
worth? I remember once seeing someone in the Army
argue with a supervisor that digging a couple of vehicles
out of the snow would be far too difficult, an almost
impossible task. When we went out to do it, though, we
were done in half an hour.
Often,
our brains go very far in analyzing a job or a task, and we
find ourselves afraid to take on the task because we might
fail in doing so. We might end up not completing it,
or it may be just too hard to do at all, so we give up
before we even give ourselves the chance to try. It's
a very self-defeating way to go through life, and it doesn't
often give us the opportunity to shine or to accomplish
things that might make us feel better about ourselves.
I
wouldn't want to go and tackle Mt. Everest without first
spending a lot of time preparing, of course, but even that
task wouldn't be as difficult as most people make it out to
be-- it would take much preparation and a strong focus on
doing it, but I would definitely see it as possible (though
my fear of heights may interfere with my efforts!).
Many people already have proved that it is possible, so it
must be so. With the right attitude and the right
preparation, almost anyone could do it, as long as they're
accompanied by the experts they would need.
Sometimes
just going out there and doing something, no matter what we
think the outcome may turn out to be, is the best thing we
can do. There are times when it's completely
unimportant whether we "succeed" or not; rather,
the important thing is that we've made the effort and
learned the lessons that the effort had in store for us.
We
can make things more difficult than they are, or we can just
do our best to accomplish what we feel we need to
accomplish. It really is our choice to approach things
in the ways that we do.
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