In our exhaustion from the daily grind, an opportunity presents itself everyday. Except it’s probably invisible to most of us. Maybe the decently self-aware person doesn’t miss it. Who knows for sure?
If no one is immune from life’s demands, how do some seem to make the obvious first choice?
Survive or thrive.
Pick.
All are eligible to thrive.
All of us?
It would certainly seem so.
We should never judge others on their perceived luck or privilege. This would certainly start looking like an excuse. Denial. We don’t need any more of that in our life.
But it sure beats trying to do the challenging work of learning how to thrive despite the hell we all go through.
A recent Seth Godin post revealed he writes three or more posts to get one for publishing. He discards the others.
If you follow Seth (and he comes with the highest recommendation, because he’s brilliant) you know how extraordinarily different he thinks (and writes, and speaks).
And yet in his message – usually uniquely positioned in a way we’ve never thought of – we find ourselves going, “That makes sense”.
The challenge with balance, is that we do not have the luxury of spending three or more days to get one day of great balance.