July 14, 2009
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Mountains or Molehills (Mom's Lecture #109)
Tim Roberts
“Timothy Roberts, Lecture #109!”
When mom was mad, that’s typically how the “discussion” started – our formal name followed by a lecture number. And my siblings and I knew exactly what would follow.
Lecture #109 was usually a Timmy special. As a third born hungry for attention I needed to be heard. An arms flying, foot stompin’ temper tantrum typically got the job done.
109 came with 3rd party stories about uncles of yore. Mom was always willing to throw an uncle under the bus if it would get her message across in the moment. Of course, these uncles would miraculously change their evil ways so the story would end, “That’s why you’ve never seen your Uncle Mike act like that again…”
When small things begin to loom large in your mind, it’s time to interrupt the pattern before it becomes rigid. You might even need a perspective pal.
My perspective pal often taps on my glasses and asks, “Why do you see it that way? That’s not how I see it.” That reminder quickly interrupts the place I’m in and allows me to challenge the old pattern and create a new, positive perspective.
The sales climate right now has many focusing on client retention. So many companies are reporting stories of “We lost another large, long term client this week.” I can feel their belief that next week will bring more of the same. You can sense that small challenges are becoming bigger ones daily. You may want to ask yourself the question: What are the things that upset and disturb me?”
Eckhart Tolle in his book, A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, said, “If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. That will be your unconscious belief. What are the small things? Ultimately all things are small because all things are transient.”
In his first book, The Power of Now, Tolle quoted a Buddhist monk who once told him: “All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know.” What he meant, said Tolle, was this: I have learned to offer no resistance to what is; I have learned to allow the present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus, I have found peace.
Mom was a bit more direct but said the same thing: “Timothy Roberts, count to ten! This too shall pass.”
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