No B.S Friday: Sometimes you're guided to go, sometimes you're guided to stop.
I'm hoping that the year comes easy for you this year. I hope you find that everything flows. I hope you find that there's a great hand clearing your way and guiding your little penguin legs down the road.
But I might just point out that there's two types of flow. One is easily recognised for what it is, and the other is rarely recognised.
Let me tell you two stories.
Once, someone I knew was driving down the road and for some reason they felt called turn down a road that they'd never gone down before.
As they were driving, they came across an old woman trying to get some heavy looking boxes into her car.
He stopped to help her out. They got to talking. She was getting ready to move. She needed to sell. She had a property that was ideal for subdivision.
He put a proposal to her family for a joint-venture, and they both made a nice bit of money.
In hindsight he had no idea why he had gone down that road that day.
He just felt guided.
Let me tell you another story.
Once a friend of mine was driving home from work late at night. She came up on a four way intersection. The light was green, but for some reason, she was compelled to stop.
Just as she was wondering what her brake foot was doing, someone driving a stolen car ran the red light and tore through the intersection at 100 miles an hour.
If she hadn't stopped, she could've been killed. But she had no idea why she had stopped.
It felt like guidance.
Now it would be my guess that in life we are guided to DO something just as often as we are guided to NOT DO something. I don't know if that's true, but it seems logical.
But when something gets in the way and thwarts our plans – when something stops us from getting where we want to go – we rarely stop and give thanks.
We are more likely to curse our luck and write a letter to the council about it.
But I feel like, logically, there must be times when this friction has a purpose.
Maybe that goal we are chasing isn't that awesome after all. Maybe it's awesome but there's something more awesome waiting for us.
Or maybe what we really need is to just stop and work on something else for a while.
Maybe.
It would be great if we could know. But we can't.
And so I guess I just want to highlight the other side of the coin when it comes to flow.
Sometimes, maybe, when life throws obstacles in your way, that it is actually for your greatest good.
And I think the discipline of abundance thinking is that in the absence of a clear indication either way, our instinct is to just presume that things are unfolding in the best possible way.
Even if that means that sometimes there’s a foot on the brake for no good reason that we can see.
JG
Carl Williams says
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Joanne Hunt says
Love this – great to be reminded to be still and think sometimes