What are you growing?

My Next Stage Coach

Judy Panek, MS, CPCC

Certified Professional Co-Active Coach

Judy@mynextstagecoach.com

March 4, 2011

Dear Creators,

Here are a couple thoughts to sit with this week: There is no security in stagnation. As long as we are alive we are either growing or we’re dying. This may seem a rather stark notion, but consider - being alive means we are constantly growing, changing, evolving.

Our choice becomes: What are we growing? Being conscious and aware allows us to realize the choices we can make about what we are growing. We can also appreciate what it means to grow and recognize what growth feels like, looks like - the process of growth. We know that growth is not always comfortable; it can feel very awkward, and clumsy. There is uncertainty and doubt, since the very nature of growth means we are trying something new, unfamiliar, out of our comfort zone.

When we see a baby learning to walk we accept the falling down, we celebrate the clumsiness because we recognize that this is a necessary part of the process of learning. We know this is essential for the eventual grace, ease of movement, running, dancing that is in this baby’s future.

And so with us, when we choose some area we want to grow, to expand, to develop (a new language, better fitness, more balance, leadership, compassion, money management, stronger relationships....) The decision becomes; What is it I want to grow? What are the conditions that will support me in this? How can I remember to stay with it even when it feels awkward, when I am not perfect?

If we don’t do this consciously, we do it by default, and so we may grow our discontent, our frustration.

What are you growing?

Judy

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

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