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Revive and Thrive: Harnessing the Positive Mindset
Dear Why Team member,
I hope this week’s message finds you well and living in vision.
Why Visualize? To Actualize.
I find it fascinating to think that every material object we see began as a thought; thought preceded the creation.
Clearly the quality of our thought is important - thus the quality of our imagination is important. It wasn’t until Roger Banister broke the four-minute mile that the possibility could be imagined - but once the field of possibility opened - many soon ran through it as fast as he did - what was previously thought impossible became a thought that it was possible.
Wayne Dyer used to say we didn’t discover how a large ship floats by contemplating its sinking. How many of us are so wired to contemplate more a negative outcome than a positive one?
Why do we do this?
To avoid disappointment?!!
“Most people prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty”.
- Virginia Satir
Seems we can so fear disappointment that we just assume it will happen to get rid of the fear of it. I knew someone who was so happy when her marriage failed so that she would no longer fear its failure.
Why have so many become so fearful of a failure or a mistake? Nothing like something not working to learn how to make it work. Let’s drop calling it failure and instead call it feedback. Let’s think of a mistake as simply a miss-take.
To Revive and Thrive in 2025, let’s catch ourselves jumping to the negative and see if we can’t purposely jump to a positive.
How can it not improve the experience of our life? I’m not suggesting we not prepare for the worse, I’m just suggesting we stop planning for it. We could even gain some positive self-image by being the one who believes in possibilities no matter the outcomes.
Focusing on the half-full portion of a glass does not require we ignore the half-empty portion - it actually empowers us to better address the half empty. Let’s be grateful it’s half full or a quarter full. And living ‘it could be worse’ is gratitude that it isn’t.
Many today will not start a large book for the fear of not finishing it. How about we redefine success as process-focused rather than outcome-focused like Dan Sullivan teaches in his book ‘The Gap and The Gain’. Let’s celebrate the beginnings and the courage to start, rather than being fearful of not finishing.
To Revive and Thrive in 2025, how about we Begin more than ever before? And congratulate ourselves more for the journey than for reaching any destination.
As for books to read and mountains to climb, can we not gain a positive feeling from the effort alone? How are we to create anything new, and reach new destinations, if we’re not willing to make miss-takes and a few wrong turns along the way?
“The man who loves walking will walk further than the man who loves the destination.”
- Lao Tzu
Living in vision rather than circumstance is particularly helpful when the circumstances are hurtful. To have vision above and beyond circumstance- with the imagination for its possibility - can carry us through the most difficult of storms.
Life can be incredibly difficult and painful - how may we be more fortified, more mentally prepared, for the inevitable?
Well, that is what these weekly blogs are all about. TWB - Together We’re Better. While we have little control over outcomes, we can have a lot of control over how we think about them. The power of perspective, of re-framing, of gratitude, of living a ‘live and learn’ mindset.
As we conclude this incredible year where we worked to Become More in 2024, let’s become all the more excited to Revive and Thrive in 2025. We will break down our days, become more conscious of our choices, and make better trades to make a better life - for ourselves and those we serve.
Here’s to our BEST HOLIDAYS EVER to kick off our NEW BEST YEAR EVER!
Happy Holidays to You and Yours!
Cheers!
Steve Luckenbach