Change Is A Decision

It’s an image I have…

A true image from an event that happened.

I am 10, riding on a bicycle in a loose T-shirt, hands free. Happy.

Suddenly there’s a hole in the road, and my bike falls over, sending me sliding along a pile of pebbles. My exposed belly is sandpapered by the little stones. I skid to a halt face down in the dirt.

I am in agonizing pain, my belly ripped open by the rocks.

It happened when I was 10, and it is still a vivid memory.

Jimmy Stuart once remarked, that great films are created by the number of great moments within them. That remark struck me as true - we have many ways to calibrate time. Counting years is dry; memorizing events has more truth to it.

And events often repeat. We live them again and again, movies in our minds. So many times in my life have I been breezing happily along: hands free, gay, the world is open. Then I find my Self suddenly crashing to the dirt in a stupor of drink, depression and loneliness. I have to pull my Self out of agonizing pain. Again.

In business, they are called origin stories, or hero stories. They must come to a good end; the hero must triumph.

Have you got your hero's story?

Or are you still making your film?

Still creating the same scene over and over again?

I was watching Tony Robbin's documentary "I Am Not Your Guru" on Netflix last week. And he claimed to a crowed of 5,000 people:

"What I want you to know, is if you're going to have a breakthrough, when someone says it took 10 years to make a change, what you really find out, is that the change happened in a moment. It took you 10 years to get to the moment to say:

'Never again. I quit. Let's begin. I love you. I do. It's over.'

Our entire life changes in a moment."

FM said precisely the same thing:

"Change involves carrying out an activity against the habit of life."

Time for your last scene?

Time for your hero's journey?

Change is a process ending in a decision.

ThinkingBody Online.

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