Maybe this time around I should start with a general concept and let it form itself into a statement once I start obsessing....
I told my counselor that I know two things I will need to face, besides the Big One. I'm not ready to talk about these here, except for acknowledging that I will probably need to get back into some form of volunteer work. When I told her that she asked what the connection between compassion and volunteering is for me. I replied that for me, service is compassion in action. It occurs to me that that would make a good bumper sticker or mantra...
Last time I printed out my obsession statement and placed it all over my house. My printer isn't working, so even if I had a statement ready, I couldn't do that. I am considering writing out some quotes from the brainstorm book by hand and seeing how that works for inspiration.... perhaps this one:
"The challenges you face are the exact ones you need to tackle." (page 30)...
I'm not sure it's a good thing that Johnnie is also working on compassion as part of his spiritual journey. He started on it awhile ago, so he may be getting ready to move onto another lesson soon. We just experience our lessons very differently, so I don't know how that will play out...
At the time that all hell was breaking loose in my Household and financial life during the second half of 2010, I really struggled to feel like I was accomplishing anything from obsessing about leadership. However, looking back I realize that I did what I felt needed to be done to get Johnnie and myself into a better living situation and, eventually, to a more responsible financial footing. We are even beginning to resume the work we had started last summer to build our own businesses and create the life we want. Much of that is a direct result of my leadership -- though I certainly didn't expect to have to go through all that to end up here...
For pretty much my entire life, television has been my distraction, my guilty pleasure, my tool for learning, and my escape from the world. It is something that Johnnie and I have in common -- in fact, we spent a good portion of our first 'date' comparing notes on our favorite SciFi television shows. I wonder where I'll find time to obsess about compassion when May sweeps is winding up the current season and the network upfronts are announcing which shows are renewed and what new ones will come...in short, it's the busiest month of the year in terms of television news and storylines and I'm supposed to be obsessing about something completely unrelated...
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