Your opportunity to win an iPad and make a full-power start to the year. Challenge #2 – Knowing Your Pain
Wow, 326 responses to Challenge #1 and counting… If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check your email inbox or click this link.
Let’s move on to Challenge #2 (Participate – Movement creates momentum).
There’s a story where I come from of a master craftsman who kept his old apprentice’s apron in the attic.
Every night he would go up to the attic and connect with the apron, as a way of remembering how far he’d come, and the road that he was still on.
In a way, I think we are all escaping from something
I mean, you don’t set out to overhaul your life if everything is perfect, right? You’re not here for the entertaining way I confuse ancient wisdom and footy coaching clichés. You are here because you want something more.
But our mistake is to hide our pain from others and from ourselves.
We pretend like everything is more or less sorted. We’re here just for a bit of spit and polish. Just to put the finishing touches on a life that is pretty much complete.
And we can’t admit that our life is on fire – that it’s coming apart at the seams and taking on water.
Maybe it’s pride. Maybe we think it’s polite to keep our suffering to ourselves.
But whatever the case, there is an opportunity missed here.
The human, in its pain response, is incredibly energised. Of course it is. You might struggle to get up off the couch, but if the house was on fire, you’d break land-speed records getting out the door.
So if we muffle our pain, we muffle our pain response – and that deadens us, makes us less energised.
So this is your simple challenge for today: Connect with your pain. Connect with your discomfort.
Give yourself two minutes (that’s all it’ going to take), and just free-form it. Don’t think about your answer. Just write.
Leave a short comment below:
- What in your life right now just isn’t working.
- What just doesn’t fit?
- What pisses you off?
- What would you leave behind in 2019 if you could?
Go!
Ok, be aware that you are sharing this with random people on the internets, so maybe don’t go into the specifics. Don’t name names.
But spend time with the part of you that is uncomfortable. The part that wants to move – that wants to move forward.
Despite what the happy-clappy success gurus say, it is a pain that should be central to our daily drive.
So this is your challenge for today. Comment below.
And if you missed your challenge #1, here it is again. 326 people took the time to share, so the buzz is real. Check out what they’re responses were, plus add yours!
Remember, everyone who completes the Power Challenge goes into the prize draw to win at the end of the month.
Power on.
JG
P.S. – As a bonus, share this with someone who you think resonates with the pain you are pointing to. Say, “Hey, this wanker Jon asked me to do this. But I thought you might resonate with this. Is this how you would say it?” Copy and paste.
P.P.S. Still reading? Good. Now time to take two minutes and do the work. Here are the questions again. Don’t think, just write. There are no right or wrong answers.
- What in your life right now just isn’t working.
- What just doesn’t fit?
- What pisses you off?
- What would you leave behind in 2019 if you could?
Post your answers here.