Keep going

There was once a sculptor who spent months carving a statue from a massive block of stone.
Every day, people passed him, shaking their heads.
"That’s too big."
"You’re wasting your time."
"No one cares about statues anymore."
But he kept carving.
One day, someone finally stopped and asked, "How did you know there was a statue in that rock?"
He answered, "I didn’t. I just knew what didn’t belong - and I chipped away everything that wasn’t it."
That’s what this work is.
It’s not always about knowing what the masterpiece will look like.
It’s about showing up every day and removing what doesn’t serve.
The noise. The doubt. The lies you were taught to believe about yourself.
What’s left after that?
Truth. Voice. Power. Purpose.
Chip away. Keep going.

[James Barbour]

Control your anger ...

There was a snake that crawled over a sharp saw and was cut. In anger the snake wrapped the saw with its thick body and proceeded to squeeze the life out of the saw. 

With each angry squeeze it felt more pain but continued because it wasn’t going to let the saw get away with the pain it caused it. The snake, refusing to let go of the saw, eventually died; not knowing the whole time,  he needed to let go of the initial pain and focus on its future and where it was going. Instead, the snake unfortunately lost its life and didn’t even see it coming. 

Control your anger, forgive those that hurt you, and don’t give people or things power over you. It can eventually kill you.

[Thank you, Elsa, for sharing this.]

Plug into the power ...