Are you willing to do the hard work?

We live in a world where everything is accessible at the push of a button. While it's great for serving our basic needs, it harms our way of thinking.

As an Integral Coach, I'm often asked, what can you do to help me? Never in those exact words... I'm paraphrasing.

It's always a hard question to answer. It might even be an unfair question because, in the end, what I can do for people is more reflective of the work they are willing to put in to create the transformation they seek.

We live in a world where everything is accessible at the push of a button. While it's great for serving our basic needs, it harms our way of thinking.

We’ve become accustomed to having nearly everything we need, creating a distance between us and our ability to want to work hard for what we truly want. Transformation comes as a result of doing the work.

Doing the work means experimenting with what sits at the edges of our zone of comfort. It's far too easy to think about what we know is at those edges, but it's far harder to work there.

In doing the hard work, we experience a slow shift from what we know intellectually to what we can become. We start internalizing what exists in our intellect; we begin to feel and experience it in ways that couldn't be described before doing the work.

Perhaps a more powerful question we should be asking is, are we willing to do the hard work to get the transformation we seek?

A few favourites this week

A Life on Our Planet: Another excellent documentary by the one and only David Attenborough. He shares the impact he’s seen firsthand that is happening worldwide concerning climate change. He brings to life for us the road we are on if we don’t change our ways as a species. It’s a must-watch.

What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election?: A great TED talk by Van Jones, which explains in simple words how a presidential candidate could lose the popular vote, fail to get a majority in the electoral college, refuse to concede, manipulate hidden mechanisms and still get sworn in as the president of the United States.

While offering a digestible understanding of the issues, it also provides humane ways to approach this circumstance should it ever happen.

Quote of the week

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

An excellent quote from Michael Pollan in In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. It finds a balance between none and too much and applies well beyond the world of food.

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Miguel,
Sparknotion – Think Differently.