Keith Lay, Composer - MAC wk3 response to Stacey Robinson

You are right about the finish line - the steps through it are much harder than from the starting line. And our mistakes - they are teachers, aren't they?

I'm guessing you resonate nicely with Zander's ideas. I see it in your "About Me" ( I am a change maker & making a difference in education is my life... mother of 2 and living a life of purpose...) - a lovely, strong declaration.

Thank you Stacey!

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week 3 reading

Does It Gotta Be or Not Be? That is the Question...

Wow chapter 7, The Way Things Are made me really stop! Sometimes settling for the way things are is a lowering of expectations, sometimes it's finding a starting point so that one can make things better. Where am I on this continuum? Well I must say that I am not at either end, I am somewhere in the middle. I like things to be easy for all, but that is not always the case which doesn't mean you have to always take an action one way or the other as the book states be a resistance. "It simply means, being present without resistance: being present to what is happening and present to you reactions, no mater how intense." (Zander & Zander, page 100)

I keep thinking about the movie "Bridget Jones", where the co-star told her "he liked her just the way she was", but instead of being who she reacted to those words and strive to be someone so she wasn't all to have a man. We tend to forget that things may be the way they are and that sometimes an adjust is necessary, but other times they are not. The challenge I believe comes from understanding not fighting so that all possibilities are open.

This chapter also addressed MISTAKES. We all make them and many times dwell on them way too long. Mistakes like everything else in life are just experiences that e must use to push forward and not stop us from knocking or building walls for progress. Mistakes are just mini lessons in the cycle and we must take each one are an learning experience to be better. I like the paragraph - Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

The last point I want to touch on from this chapter is the way things are should allow us to dream and visualize the possibilities that out there. It will allow us to develop who we are and want to be in the universe. It should allow us to open doors with an open heart and mind. The way things are is in itself another avenue to the "Art of Possibility." (no pun intended)