Showing posts with label Thursday Thinker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thursday Thinker. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2009

How Fear Spreads | Thursday Thinker

I'm starting a new tradition for myself. No, not a thinking tradition, a sharing tradition, where I share some of what I think about.*

So here it is. The Thursday Thinker - the Fear thing and how it spreads.

I fear changes. Most people do. I fear changes because I don't know what will happen. I would feel so much better if I knew what would happen after the changes, wouldn't you?

So somehow thinking about fear, shifted me over to dandelions. Yeah, dandelions, those wonderfully goldenrod colored flowers that hide themselves after the sun sets and only reveals themselves again with the rising of the sun.

Did you know, overnight they can go from a beautiful flower to the seed head?

Once the dandelion morphs into the seed head, any movement stirs up and blows as many of the puffy little cottonesque spores off the stalk.

Those seed spores can travel a long way with their little parachutes and in the process fill your yard with an abundance of themselves. That's how they spread. It's just what they do to survive.

You didn't even have to actually do anything for them to spread. Nature does her thing. The spores do their thing and you get dandelions all over your yard. Nature is all about spreading and sharing her abundance, isn't she?

What if fear is like that? What if we don't have to do anything for the fear to spread all over our life? Isn't fear part of nature too? Is the process the same?

Anyway, that's Thinking Thursday. Share your thoughts in the comments but, only if you want to.

Want to share your thoughts somewhere else? Share where that is in the comments.

Okay just comment. Please.

Thanks!


(Thanks to Havi with her rituals, authenticity & quirkiness or I wouldn't be sharing anything real yet!)

Thursday, January 08, 2009

What Are YouThinking? | Thursday Thinker


What Are You Thinking?

Your boss fires you, the Department of Labor denies your unemployment benefits.

What are you thinking?

I'll show the department of labor, how dare they deny me.
It's my boss, the HR person, the office admin fault, they told a lie on me.
I knew the boss, the HR person, the office admin never liked me.
I can't believe this is happening to me. Life is not fair. I deserve better than this.
I'll fight this denial until I'm blue in the face. I'll show them what I'm made of.

Wow, I've just been given a really great opportunity to learn a lesson about myself.

I've asked the question on twitter too.

My thoughts are in the comments and you are welcome to leave yours there as well.

P.S. - Twitter is where I met Akemi Gaines who has marvelous insight on the emotional rollercoaster ride of job loss. You can check out her Job Loss post and I recommend clicking around in her archives as well.

I'll update this post with responses from twitter if you aren't following the conversation there. Wait, why aren't you on twitter yet following me ===> SingleMinna <=== and all the other great folks there?