What if you lose your job?
Eeek!
What if you have to change your plans suddenly?
HELP!!
The idea that security and certainty come from our circumstances staying the same is a delusion. Things don’t stay the same.
We know that, of course, but we still tend to behave as though everything will always be as it is and so we can bury our heads in that particular heap of sand.
There’s an old Zen proverb about the difference between willow trees and oaks. The oak looks mighty, but because it’s rigid, when the winds blow it’s more likely to fall than the flexible willow.
The great Jim Rohn spoke about the “set of your sail.” He said the same wind blows upon each of us – whether that’s the prevailing political wind, or an economic one – whatever it is – and yet in any climate, under all circumstances, some people will thrive and survive, whilst others will fall and fail.
It’s not the wind that causes the problem, but the set of your sail.
Here’s the great Dr. Wayne Dyer explaining it his way in a favourite passage of mine from one of his many recorded lectures …
