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Your Own Personal Fire Department
(Originally posted several months ago. This is being repeated for the coming week...)
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Tuesday morning, 7:15 am. I go outside to start the car. Instead of the usual calm suburban morning I am greeted by a light show.
Three fire engines and a command truck, red and white lights flashing on all. In the road, two doors down at my elderly neighbor's house.
I took a good look to see what the nature of the emergency might be. Hard to tell. There are no flames visible. No smoke. No downed power lines. No hoses unrolled. Not even a kitten up a tree as far as I can see.
What I do see is a bunch of firefighters standing around, chatting each other up. I see a couple of guys taking a leisurely stroll toward my neighbor's backyard. My guess is my neighbor detected trouble of some kind. Perhaps there was some kind of potential emergency and he thought it best to get some help before it spun out of control. So he called the fire department. Probably a smart move.
Of course the fire department came with just about everything they've got. It looks like all of Station Five, from the deputy chief on down put down their morning coffee and jumped onto the scene.
No harm done, I suppose. Sure, there could have been something awful going on someplace else and the response time would have been much different. But as far as I know that didn't happen. I didn't see any plumes of smoke in the sky.
But it got me thinking. How good are we at using our own resources for the important stuff?
How good are you at figuring out what's important and what's urgent? There's a huge difference between the two. Urgent means it's demanding your attention in that red hot minute. It may or may not be important. Important means it's in line with your purpose, your mission, your sacred calling.
And of course that means you know what those are to begin with. We're all called toward something bigger than our daily lives, although few know what that is.
Just like this morning, if you don't know what's important, one of two things are going to happen. You're either going to take something that's small potatoes and throw everything you got at it. You'll have tied up your resources - physical, mental and emotional - on something that's essentially a "false alarm."
Or even worse, you will fail to put your attention on things that are important. The facade might stay up, but your foundation will be destroyed. You'll have committed all of your energy to something that only needed a little bit. Nothing left for the good stuff.
And to continue the metaphor a little more, there's a cost to bring all that hardware out into the world. Firetrucks take gas and maintenance. Firefighters respond quickly. They have to recharge their own personal batteries. Each time they respond urgently to a nonemergency, it takes a bit out of them.
A misallocation of resources.
What are YOU doing with your own life? Do you know what's important to you? Are you putting attention and focus on things that seem urgent but don't align with your life purpose?
Here's what I want you to do this week:
1. Go someplace quiet. Figure out what's important to you. You know what it is. It puts a smile on your face. You feel uplifted just thinking about it. (Note: this is a HUGE difference from a sense of dread if it doesn't get done. That's often more about what's important to someone else.)
2. Look at how much energy you're putting into the various parts of your life.
Are the big engines coming out for big things? Are they coming out for things that are important to someone else? Are you spending a lot of time responding to false alarms? Can you put less attention on things that don't need the whole fleet? Can someone else handle some of the details?
3. Take stock of what you've got. Is your house in order? Are the foundations of your life - physical, relationship, financial, spiritual solid? Do they need some maintenance or repair? Do they need emergency help? How much?
4. Look at the resources you have to deal with the parts of your life. Whether it was needed or not, I was thrilled to see a professional, well equipped fire department in my neighborhood. It's also a blessing to have the personal resources and skills to pursue my life's mission (and put out the occasional fire). How about you? Do you have what you need? Do you have a plan to increase your skills? Have you found a mentor, teacher or some kind of role model to plug into?
5. (And most importantly) Be GRATEFUL. If you're reading this right now, you have every resource you need to fix your life, no matter what kind of shape you're in. You have your sight, you know how to read, you have access to 21st century technology and you have the DESIRE for something new and better. Anything else that's missing can be acquired with a few simple shifts in your thoughts and feelings.
There's lots of drama and excitement in your own personal light show. You should definitely take your energy out for a spin. Let it be for the good stuff, not the false alarms.
Your Blessed Pal,
Larry
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Tuesday morning, 7:15 am. I go outside to start the car. Instead of the usual calm suburban morning I am greeted by a light show.
Three fire engines and a command truck, red and white lights flashing on all. In the road, two doors down at my elderly neighbor's house.
I took a good look to see what the nature of the emergency might be. Hard to tell. There are no flames visible. No smoke. No downed power lines. No hoses unrolled. Not even a kitten up a tree as far as I can see.
What I do see is a bunch of firefighters standing around, chatting each other up. I see a couple of guys taking a leisurely stroll toward my neighbor's backyard. My guess is my neighbor detected trouble of some kind. Perhaps there was some kind of potential emergency and he thought it best to get some help before it spun out of control. So he called the fire department. Probably a smart move.
Of course the fire department came with just about everything they've got. It looks like all of Station Five, from the deputy chief on down put down their morning coffee and jumped onto the scene.
No harm done, I suppose. Sure, there could have been something awful going on someplace else and the response time would have been much different. But as far as I know that didn't happen. I didn't see any plumes of smoke in the sky.
But it got me thinking. How good are we at using our own resources for the important stuff?
How good are you at figuring out what's important and what's urgent? There's a huge difference between the two. Urgent means it's demanding your attention in that red hot minute. It may or may not be important. Important means it's in line with your purpose, your mission, your sacred calling.
And of course that means you know what those are to begin with. We're all called toward something bigger than our daily lives, although few know what that is.
Just like this morning, if you don't know what's important, one of two things are going to happen. You're either going to take something that's small potatoes and throw everything you got at it. You'll have tied up your resources - physical, mental and emotional - on something that's essentially a "false alarm."
Or even worse, you will fail to put your attention on things that are important. The facade might stay up, but your foundation will be destroyed. You'll have committed all of your energy to something that only needed a little bit. Nothing left for the good stuff.
And to continue the metaphor a little more, there's a cost to bring all that hardware out into the world. Firetrucks take gas and maintenance. Firefighters respond quickly. They have to recharge their own personal batteries. Each time they respond urgently to a nonemergency, it takes a bit out of them.
A misallocation of resources.
What are YOU doing with your own life? Do you know what's important to you? Are you putting attention and focus on things that seem urgent but don't align with your life purpose?
Here's what I want you to do this week:
1. Go someplace quiet. Figure out what's important to you. You know what it is. It puts a smile on your face. You feel uplifted just thinking about it. (Note: this is a HUGE difference from a sense of dread if it doesn't get done. That's often more about what's important to someone else.)
2. Look at how much energy you're putting into the various parts of your life.
Are the big engines coming out for big things? Are they coming out for things that are important to someone else? Are you spending a lot of time responding to false alarms? Can you put less attention on things that don't need the whole fleet? Can someone else handle some of the details?
3. Take stock of what you've got. Is your house in order? Are the foundations of your life - physical, relationship, financial, spiritual solid? Do they need some maintenance or repair? Do they need emergency help? How much?
4. Look at the resources you have to deal with the parts of your life. Whether it was needed or not, I was thrilled to see a professional, well equipped fire department in my neighborhood. It's also a blessing to have the personal resources and skills to pursue my life's mission (and put out the occasional fire). How about you? Do you have what you need? Do you have a plan to increase your skills? Have you found a mentor, teacher or some kind of role model to plug into?
5. (And most importantly) Be GRATEFUL. If you're reading this right now, you have every resource you need to fix your life, no matter what kind of shape you're in. You have your sight, you know how to read, you have access to 21st century technology and you have the DESIRE for something new and better. Anything else that's missing can be acquired with a few simple shifts in your thoughts and feelings.
There's lots of drama and excitement in your own personal light show. You should definitely take your energy out for a spin. Let it be for the good stuff, not the false alarms.
Your Blessed Pal,
Larry
NO MORE HOLDING BACK
See all the good stuff at my blog...
No More Holding Back
↑ Subscribe to No More Holding Back
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