The Hidden Power of Acceptance
We’re told to always look for bigger and better. We focus so much attention on where we’re going that we’re never fully present. We have one foot in our current projects as our other foot searches for “higher” footing.
The lesson: Be present by accepting things as they are. Focus your attention on your best actions for today by accepting your job, project, or business as it is right now. Take a lesson from Alcoholics Anonymous and “live one day at a time.”
Many people confuse acceptance with complacency. Acceptance doesn’t breed passivity, apathy, or complacency. When we accept things as they are, we are free. To be free means to operate fully in the world without disruptive negative emotions like desire, anger, worry, pride, or fear getting in our way.
Acceptance facilitates the freedom to act with clarity and focus. There is a great deal of power hidden in acceptance. Unleash this power by allowing your career, job, or business to be as it is—even just for a moment.
Does all of this mean you don’t need a vision for the future? Nope. Have a vision, but don’t obsess over it. Hold your vision in mind, but live one day at a time.
Master Yoda remarks to ethereal Obi Wan Kenobee as he considers training Luke Skywalker in Empire Strikes Back: “All his life has he looked away … to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things.”
The true Jedi learns to be present in the moment by accepting what is. With acceptance, the energy of desire and craving diminishes and the Jedi acts with precision when needed.
(Sorry, I had to do it.)
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