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Calm
Last week was anything but calm for me. In fact, last week was really the definition of mayhem. As you probably saw in the news, Dallas and all of Texas got hit pretty hard by winter storm Uri. And since Texas is hot most of the time, the infrastructure here just couldn’t handle it. I was without power for several days, lived on other people’s couches, couldn’t really drive or go anywhere, and had a multitude of other issues too. However, amidst the craziness, I think the best thing we do is be calm.
I know being calm in the middle of chaos is definitely something that is way easier said than done, but I think a lot of people don’t even try to be calm. It is easy to get worked up really quickly when everything seems to be turning upside down, lean into the chaos, and feel justified for doing so. I mean, pretty much everyone was in that boat back in March of 2020. But in situations like that, where there really isn’t much we can do about it, I think the best thing we can do is be calm. At the end of the day I think it’s really about understanding that some things are just totally out of our control.
It is human nature to want to be in control of things. Often times we feel safer, and more secure when we have more control over the situations that we are in. But I think there is also something liberating in knowing that something is 100% out of your control too. So the sooner we can accept that something is out of our control the better.
I have always been a little bit of a worrier. I like to know what is going on, and why it is going on, all the time. But over the years I’ve realized that worrying about things I have no control over is just a total waste of time and energy.
So that is my challenge to you this week: accept that some things are just out of your control. It is easy to want to figure out ways to take control of a certain situation, but that isn’t always a possibility. In my case, I had absolutely no control over the storm that hit Texas, or the power companies that turned my power off. The only thing I could control was if I was going to worry about it, or if I was going to not worry and just try to move forward one step at a time until I was able to feel a little balanced again.
Stay Motivated,
-Dan
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