What do I stand to
lose if I make this or that choice or commitment?
The "Catch 22" conundrum is, if you’re totally risk-averse, you risk losing
everything by not wanting to lose ANY thing.
Life –if it’s anything at all – is a risk. Worse, in large part, it’s a losing
proposition. You can’t have it all – at
least not all at once – and you have
to give up both good and not-so-good to get GREAT (adapted from Glen
Campbell.)
So let’s define the question more specifically:
What have you got to
lose by risking everything you’ve got
to achieve your
highest Destiny –
and to get what you
really deserve?
Examples of things you might have to give up for a Greater
Good include:
·
Television sit-coms, soap operas, reality shows
and late night variety shows
·
Web surfing, tweeting and twittering
·
Excess sugar, fat and salt
·
Excess everything else
·
Mindless connections to significant and
insignificant others
·
Getting “passed over” for promotions
·
Pettiness
·
Gossip
·
“Free Time”
·
Drug dependencies
·
Artificial crutches
·
Insouciance
·
Cultural dogma/drama/indoctrination
·
Outsized ego
·
Lame excuses and explanations
·
Unrealistic expectations
·
Unfounded assumptions
·
Mediocrity
·
Abject failure
·
Regret/Remorse
·
Lack of accolades
·
Feeling “wasted”
·
Feeling guilty
·
Feeling unworthy
·
Feeling “cheated”
·
Bad Luck
It’s also important to point out that stress, anxiety
and frustration – while not necessarily becoming less intense – will
become more self-generated than externally imposed, and will, thus, become more
controllable / more manageable and more focused toward productivity than toward
destructivity.
Summation: Lose the
chains of pandering underachievement and overindulgence in mediocrity: Start shedding the
non-necessaries and frank hindrances and start claiming some well-deserved
victories! Quartermaster
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