What words have changed your life for good? Who spoke them?
In my previous post I suggested we remember these words – the blessings we’ve received over the years, and call them out of hiding. We should use them like buoys to guide us on the blustery seas of life.
If done intently, this is no exercise in nostalgia – it’s a chess move, a path forward blazed by using our strengths, which often lie dormant or untapped or unacknowledged.
The strengths I’m referring to are not the slick new resume skills we acquired at our last job. They’re usually older, deeper; the pillars of our personality. They’re the three words our friends might use to describe us. Others see them easier than we do. Why? We get bored with ourselves. We become as blind to our gifts as we do to the shoes we’re wearing.
To live by the light of these blessings, we must know them first. We must know that they are there.
There are many ways to take stock, but the simplest and most overlooked is to remember. It sounds easy, but we forget lots of things, even important things. Remembering takes effort. It’s selective and intentional.
One easy step is this: noodle on the question. What words have changed your life for good? Who spoke them? Let the mind dig it up like old buried treasure.
show & tell 