77 Marbles
All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good and out of this experience only good will come. I am safe.
Louise Hay
During his Stanford commencement speech, Steve Jobs talked about another one of his life lessons- love and loss. After founding Apple and spending 10 years building it into a successful company, at age 30 he was fired. It was a public spectacle and “awful tasting medicine” but as he says, “the patient needed it.” He realized that he had been publicly rejected but he was still in love with what he did. He went on to found another computer company (NeXT) which ironically was later bought by Apple. He also acquired a company that later became Pixar, the famously innovative computer animation company (Toy Story, Finding Nemo). He continued to do what he loved.
I was fired from my relationship months ago and although the medicine was more private, it still tasted awful. The great thing was that I couldn’t be fired from what I really loved - being a mom to my kids, going to school, and creating. Jobs’ story continued that he came to see that being fired from Apple was the best thing that could have happened to him.
Perhaps in hindsight, after connecting the dots, I’ll come to see that being fired from Ex-man was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Breakups are one of those rare opportunities that shatter life’s routine. Many of those routines were established by thoughts, decisions, and conclusions from years prior to the breakup. Yet when the status quo gets shaken up, there’s an opportunity to start asking questions like, “Do I love what I do?” “Do I enjoy where I live?” “Do I like how I spend my spare time?”
Each of our lives depends on solving this one problem: How can I be happy? Einstein once said, “If I had 60 minutes to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I’d spend 55 minutes determining the right question to ask. Once I got the right question, I could easily answer it in 5 minutes.” The trick is in the questions.
Are you asking yourself the right questions? If you had unlimited possibilities for your life, what would you change? What would you keep the same? What do you love doing? Is there a way to have more of that in your life?
During his Stanford commencement speech, Steve Jobs talked about another one of his life lessons- love and loss. After founding Apple and spending 10 years building it into a successful company, at age 30 he was fired. It was a public spectacle and “awful tasting medicine” but as he says, “the patient needed it.” He realized that he had been publicly rejected but he was still in love with what he did. He went on to found another computer company (NeXT) which ironically was later bought by Apple. He also acquired a company that later became Pixar, the famously innovative computer animation company (Toy Story, Finding Nemo). He continued to do what he loved.
I was fired from my relationship months ago and although the medicine was more private, it still tasted awful. The great thing was that I couldn’t be fired from what I really loved - being a mom to my kids, going to school, and creating. Jobs’ story continued that he came to see that being fired from Apple was the best thing that could have happened to him.
Perhaps in hindsight, after connecting the dots, I’ll come to see that being fired from Ex-man was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Breakups are one of those rare opportunities that shatter life’s routine. Many of those routines were established by thoughts, decisions, and conclusions from years prior to the breakup. Yet when the status quo gets shaken up, there’s an opportunity to start asking questions like, “Do I love what I do?” “Do I enjoy where I live?” “Do I like how I spend my spare time?”
Each of our lives depends on solving this one problem: How can I be happy? Einstein once said, “If I had 60 minutes to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I’d spend 55 minutes determining the right question to ask. Once I got the right question, I could easily answer it in 5 minutes.” The trick is in the questions.
Are you asking yourself the right questions? If you had unlimited possibilities for your life, what would you change? What would you keep the same? What do you love doing? Is there a way to have more of that in your life?
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