The Desert of Arizona
Sunny 51 Degrees – 8:37 a.m.
So my wife is traveling for the next week and taking my oldest helper with her.
Until the end of next week, it’s me versus the rest of the troupe.
That means cooking… ME.
Cleaning… ME.
Work… ME.
Park time… ME.
There’s something I’ve learned over the years about how best to navigate these situations.
Step 1: Give up on the “Me versus Them” mental construct.
The “Me versus Them” or “Us versus Them” construct is a losing proposition. When you go in with that program running, you lose before you start.
Same thing in the client world.
If you think it’s YOU versus the clients, you already lost!
The system wants you to be forever stuck in the “Us versus Them” frame of mind. It makes you like a pawn. You are easy to manipulate that way. It is child’s play to scare you to death, to push you off your center, to break your connection with yourself, to make you a slave by your own consent, to suppress your creative force and ensure you remain a puppet for your entire life.
All the system has to do is supply you with a steady stream of new (usually fake) adversaries and it wins. By all accounts, the system has been doing this pretty darn effectively over the past few hundred years.
The way through isn’t to learn how to win, it’s to decide to stop playing.
When you give up that mental construct, something shifts.
When you step out of that fake polarity, your energy and focus are available to create the world you want.
Us versus Them is a lie. What happens if you stop believing in it?