EYES WIDE OPEN
It really is that simple, though we’ re all really good at making things overcomplicated. When we introduce this level of scrutiny to our decisionmaking, even if we end-up coming from a selfish place 99 % of the time, we make an opening where there wasn’ t one before.
The difference in putting this into action today is, creating that opening can have a ripple effect like never before in human history. We’ ve all heard of the butterfly effect, but let’ s go one step further.
If you come from love, how does that change that impact? Put into practice, dropping a pebble in the water from love – let’ s say as you watch the fish swim by while appreciating the nature around you – could help produce much needed rains half way around the world.
Or, throwing a pebble into the water from frustration – say, in reaction to a difficult conversation you just stormed out of – could help produce a typhoon instead. What impact would you choose to have?
Whether you realize it or not, it is a choice, one of the thousands you’ re making a day, and we can have that kind of impact if we decide to.
If we want to live our lives alive, conscious, awake and unplugged from the autopilot we may have discovered governs thousands of our daily decisions, we need to instead plug into what fundamentally connects all of us. Pull out the microscope. Go deep. What do we all share?
Our cells are the same. Our desire for happiness and love, our want for connection transcends language, religion and country. Our humanity is our shared connection.
So start small. Make a Post It sized shift. Just like the subway therapy movement that’ s colorfully taken over the blank white tiles across NYC’ s Union Square station. One person’ s search for human connection in the face of a contentious election led to thousands sharing words of kindness, compassion and love. From one Post It note came a huge billboard, which has now been seen by millions. And likely inspired love-based actions from countless more.
So look up. Look around. Make one out of your 35,000 decisions today different.
What tiny way can you connect to our humanity, right now?
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