3-Minute Coaching Tip
Tolerations (noun) "an act or instance of tolerating, esp. of what is not actually approved"
I have been in bed with the flu for three days solid. Feeling better and looking back, I noticed that my nervous system was on high alert. Light was too bright, noise too loud and smells intolerable.
I also noticed that my nervous system was equally as sensitive to my thoughts. Every time I thought of a problem area my body ached more. Three days and plenty of time to think, I noticed a pattern. My body aches corresponded to exactly the things I have been tolerating in my life. You know -those things we want to change but instead we keep putting up with or putting aside. Things that are normally unacceptable but instead we make decisions like, "It's OK for now" or "It works good enough" or "There are no other options."
All of this got me to wonder, "What's the cost of those tolerations?" I suspect more than I am willing to admit.
Coaching Tip:
Think about what you have been tolerating. It takes courage and commitment to end tolerations. There is a line in the movie Invictus "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." May we all have the courage to live what we know to be true for us in this new year.
FYI - Invictus is actually the title of a poem. Click here if you want to read it in its entirety.
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