a single blade of green
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What is the way of life you want to live?
What is stopping you from living it?
These are two of the first questions you will be asked if ever you join the REVIVER Program. Now the program is a lot more than just how you create the life you want to create for yourself - or how you tap into the hidden potential that you know you have - that sense of a life yet to be lived. It goes deeper. It looks at the conditions that might be stopping you that can be hidden beneath the surface of your conscious awareness. It has tools and methods for revealing them - amongst other things.
But as much as we can work on ourselves we live in a world we must share with others. And sometimes, despite our best intentions, other people; systems, organisations, economics, political institutions, take your pick - but the world is full of obstacles and challenges that sometimes get in our way.
There is a level of determination - a willingness to adapt. A place of courage and contrast, of commitment and confidence. This is a place where we surrender to the discomfort that is the cost of entry to the life we want - to the life we are willing to work towards realising - either because we know that life is the right way to live for us, or that we know we want at least to try because the worst thing would be to age with regret of opportunity lost.
Sometimes it's just a passion. Sometimes it can be a necessity.
But of all the political institutions and situations that we must face it really does only boil down to two distinct principles. At least that's my invitation for this newsletter - to consider that politics is not a choice between left and right - it is not some binary decision between two opposites but a moment by moment set of decisions that range along the spectrum.
Suddenly there are times when these positions will be diametrically opposed, but not exclusively. And wearing one moment we can act in one direction and then in the next, our choices can compensate if, and as, and when we decide that our previous decisions did not lead us in the direction we had hoped.
And this is my invitation for today. It comes in the form of these two questions:
To what degree will your next act benefit you at the expense of someone else?
To what degree will your next act benefit someone else, possibly at your expense?
Feel free to translate 'someone' to 'something living' if you choose.
Oh, and one more thing...
To what degree is it possible to act in a way that will benefit you and someone else at the same time?
The question is, who or what is really stopping you?
I'm not advocating for a grassroots political movement. I'm just suggesting that you can be a single healthy blade of green next to many.
