From the Editor's Computer
Sometimes the only way you can move forward
is to go backwards, or even sideways. And, no, I’m not referring to our wintry
driving conditions last week.
Sometimes the only way to accomplish
something is to stop. Totally stop. Not just take a breather, but completely stop
doing what you were doing for an extended time period.
We tend to think that stopping is a
counterintuitive response, but is it?
When we are working on a task and things
start getting bogged down and don’t work as smoothly, what is our instinctive
response?
Do we not throw up our hands and want to
quit? Do we not want to run away and
hide?
So, if we instinctively know that we should
stop what we’re doing for a time, why don’t we?
That’s easy to answer. Because we’re human. :)
For some reason we are determined that we
must overcome, override, and ignore our instinctive responses. Even though we feel like we’re hitting a
brick wall, slogging through quicksand, or are going backwards, we continue to
keep pushing the situation, the task, and ourselves.
And then the situation becomes even harder
to deal with.
Yet, if we stop, and shift our focus to
doing something else, we can return to the original task renewed, refreshed,
and with new insights for moving the task, and ourselves, forward.
Beth
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