Arming Yourself With The Swords 🏆❤️🔥 of Leveraging Creativity, Adventure and Resilience
One of the many things I’m incredibly grateful for… Is my ability to see things through the lens of child-like wonderment… My creativity… and my capacity to laugh at myself… All of these offer me strength.
They may seem trivial and far from what most would categorize as “resilient”… But they’ve allowed me to decisively and efficiently problem solve, generate solutions, adventures, explore and get through some incredibly tough situations in life…
…And to help others do the same.
I’ve also had times in my life, where those abilities were drowned out… So I became disciplined in working really f—king hard to bring those capabilities back to me.
Child-like wonderment and creativity are our “minds”, by default…
Until life experiences, other people’s opinions, trauma, hurt, grief, illness… start shaping our thoughts, minds and emotions… our reactions and feelings.
When this happens that child-like wonderment and creativity are gradually covered by the blinders of defensiveness, fear, conformity and assumptions.
When that becomes the “norm” for people… which it does for many… their lives become manic, overwhelmed, stressful…
And they see those with child-like wonderment and creativity… through the perception of “it must be nice to be like that”… through to thinking they don’t have a grasp on reality.
…Depending on how tightly someone’s emotions and mind has become… due to years of forcing it to fit a certain way of existing or operating in life.
Fortunately… child-like wonderment and creativity… (being our minds by default)…
… straight-off-the-bat offers on a platter… a beacon to “light-up” and guide you on the pathway back to it.
An opportunity to fall back in love with your inner strength – with who you are at your core…
With a bit of effort and discipline to treat each day as an adventure… versus something you’re just hanging onto by the skin of your teeth.
The majority of the people I coach are Men.
Most of them, from the outside looking in… are successful in many areas of their life…
Yet have found themselves feeling like their creativity, their exploration, adventure, and vitality has been slowly drained out of them.
The pressure of accomplishments and perceptions putting them on the backburner.
Slowly killing their spirit and minds by shutting them down...
… becoming comfortable in complacency.
Man or woman… younger, older, we have the ability to tap back into our “default”…
A powerful creative force in us… that’s yearning to be leveraged.
Our mind is naturally always looking to discover, to create new ideas, to express itself.
Meaning you have the natural capability… to fire it back up, at your choosing…
And reverse the process of deadening.
In today’s FIREPIT Resilience Warriors…
We’re going to talk about exactly that…
Because, my fellow FIREPIT Resilience Warrior…
We won’t allow our spirits and fire’s to be extinguished.
Let’s get cracking…
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