Yet I also made a lot of mistakes that would naturally have a person asking if I was really all that aware.
Here's what I came to realize:
You can do a lot of internal work and fool yourself into believing that you've really done the work, when you actually haven't.
I talked a good game, but I didn't live it.
I only started living it when I started in on men's work...and even now I still catch myself in shadow at times. I'm better because there is accountability and also because I'm working with other people instead of doing it all on my own.
The thing about doing internal work is that it really only works when you have accountability to others baked into it.
For sure. Also, we’re still humans. Even the historic Buddha got annoyed.
My failures to recognize this simple truth have always been trip hazard. I’m imperfect, not as in someday I think I’ll graduate from that reality, but this is what is reliably true. There will always be limits to what I can handle.
Hey Damon, that's an interesting story. My reaction is, better to take risks and get disappointed then to never have tried. I can think back to risks I've taken that didn't work out, but I would not have gone back and done things differently because I would've lost the chance to learn. Good luck with your coaching practice, I am sure your clients benefit from your experience
Appreciate that. For sure. I don’t regret taking risks. I do think I could hav3e operated from a stronger place of wisdom, though. This is the benefit (burden) of hindsight vision.
Over the years I did a ton of internal work.
Yet I also made a lot of mistakes that would naturally have a person asking if I was really all that aware.
Here's what I came to realize:
You can do a lot of internal work and fool yourself into believing that you've really done the work, when you actually haven't.
I talked a good game, but I didn't live it.
I only started living it when I started in on men's work...and even now I still catch myself in shadow at times. I'm better because there is accountability and also because I'm working with other people instead of doing it all on my own.
The thing about doing internal work is that it really only works when you have accountability to others baked into it.
For sure. Also, we’re still humans. Even the historic Buddha got annoyed.
My failures to recognize this simple truth have always been trip hazard. I’m imperfect, not as in someday I think I’ll graduate from that reality, but this is what is reliably true. There will always be limits to what I can handle.
Yep we are human and there will be moments where we fall.
Hey Damon, that's an interesting story. My reaction is, better to take risks and get disappointed then to never have tried. I can think back to risks I've taken that didn't work out, but I would not have gone back and done things differently because I would've lost the chance to learn. Good luck with your coaching practice, I am sure your clients benefit from your experience
Appreciate that. For sure. I don’t regret taking risks. I do think I could hav3e operated from a stronger place of wisdom, though. This is the benefit (burden) of hindsight vision.