What are you grateful for?
I had an interesting experience on a personal development workshop last week.
One of questions we had to answer on the workshop was 'What is currently missing in your life?'
I put my hand up and told the facilitator that the only way I could answer that question truthfully was by saying that nothing was missing.
He looked at me with compassion and insisted that I hadn't looked hard enough and suggested that I should spend a few extra moments with the exercise.
I told him that it didn't matter how long I spent with the exercise, my answer wouldn't change. Nothing was missing.
He curiously asked me how I came up with my answer.
I replied "We all come into this world equipped with everything we need to carry out our journeys. Nothing is ever missing for me or for anyone else for that matter. The trouble is that most people have been conditioned to spend all of their time focusing on the things they believe they do not have. And because of this they are left ineffectual and powerless."
I then told him that I believed the exercise would be far more transformative for all concerned if we spent the time focusing on the things that we were incredibly grateful for instead...
He humoured me and continued the workshop as planned...
One of questions we had to answer on the workshop was 'What is currently missing in your life?'
I put my hand up and told the facilitator that the only way I could answer that question truthfully was by saying that nothing was missing.
He looked at me with compassion and insisted that I hadn't looked hard enough and suggested that I should spend a few extra moments with the exercise.
I told him that it didn't matter how long I spent with the exercise, my answer wouldn't change. Nothing was missing.
He curiously asked me how I came up with my answer.
I replied "We all come into this world equipped with everything we need to carry out our journeys. Nothing is ever missing for me or for anyone else for that matter. The trouble is that most people have been conditioned to spend all of their time focusing on the things they believe they do not have. And because of this they are left ineffectual and powerless."
I then told him that I believed the exercise would be far more transformative for all concerned if we spent the time focusing on the things that we were incredibly grateful for instead...
He humoured me and continued the workshop as planned...
posted by Damien Senn at Tuesday, April 24, 2007
2 Comments:
I'm so grateful for being a mother of three wonderful kids, have a lovely parent, sisters and brothers who are so caring. For having the chance to continue my PhD study.
I'm so grateful for being a muslim, who submits to Allah all the time and believe that i should work hard but also i should not worry about any thing in my life cose what will happen to me is what is meant to happen for my best interest whether now or in my other life.
I was at a meeting a while back where I made a similar point. Everyone in the room said what was "missing" from their life was either something like a big house in the Caribbean, or £5m or some other physical thing. I said I wanted for nothing all the time I was happy. My constant purpose in life is to remain happy. I'm confident if I looked for a "missing" £5m, I'd probably then find I was "missing" £10m. In other words, if you look for what is "missing" in your life you are never satisfied and never truly happy.
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