018: The Pose Begins When You Want to Get Out of It

Life is full of opportunity to withdraw or engage.  Are your responses intentional or reflexive on the effort you put into your commitments and relationships? Learn to be curious on what makes us want to disengage in life, activities, responsibilities and relationships.  

“The pose begins when you want to get out of it.”  ~Baron Baptiste

Carol Dweck: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Steve (her husband) said, ‘I don’t know.  I really don’t.  All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best.  It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and what should be or could be.’  His answer felt like truth to me,  Not an easy truth, but truth.”

~Brene Brown, Rising Strong

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt