Is your glass half empty or half full? It’s an old adage, but a meaningful one because it describes the focusing point of your attention. Are you mourning over what isn’t there, grateful for what you have, or delighting in the many possibilities to refresh the glass to full.
There’s an argument to be made for each focal point, especially in adversity. Grief over loss is a natural necessity until it turns into a victim lifestyle. Eventually, a choice is faced. Stay stuck on half empty and hoard what’s left for fear of losing more? Or reflect on the remaining half with profound gratitude for the remaining half-full glass and creatively build upon it?
The half-full decision is a turning point based on the simple idea of hope with a healthy perspective. No matter how bad things get, something remains, even if it is just a remnant of the past or a memory.
Your 2-word purpose provides a strong advantage. You not only know you have a purpose in life, you have clarified it! Compared to staring into the abyss of meaninglessness which happens to so many, you are greatly benefitted.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech starts with “insufficient funds” on the check President Lincoln “wrote” with the Emancipation Proclamation. He boldly reminds the nation of a promise and calls for freedom from discrimination.
Here’s a moving half-full glass decision to overcome the present dilemma. Dr. King goes further and paints a vision for filling the empty portion of the glass with his Dream. Restoration and reinvention take courage, work, and passion. I pray you have an “I have a Dream” vision for your life.
Where is your focus: half-empty, half-full, or ready to fill?
What is your “I have a Dream” vision?
Do you need help transitioning from loss to gratitude to restored?
The TOUGH SHIFT Turnaround workshop kicks off Friday! Here’s your chance to make the turnaround and learn the process and skills necessary to thrive when a glass-draining TOUGH SHIFT event happens again. And it will.
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Be On-Purpose!
Kevin
