Rusty Gears

There are moments when you want your life to change, but the inertia for change seems unreachable. Getting started feels like grinding a gear that has long since rusted. Stuck. Not moving and stuck in its ways. You need lubricant. The oil of belief, the oil of tenacity, the oil of hope. The oil of work.

Set a timer

It might take setting a timer on your phone for 15 minutes and making yourself do something, one thing, that will move you in the direction of the change you want in your life. Discipline. If during that 15 minutes you sit there stuck because you don’t know how or can’t think of how to get it going, sit there. It cannot hurt you to sit for 15 minutes, eventually you will find yourself doing something. The rust begins to be affected by the oil of attention, the oil of attentive time spent. Maybe just maybe the gear begins to move just the tiniest bit.

Oh the noise!

Do you know what else can happen when old rusty gears move? Screeching! Terrible awful sounds. This is the sound of time missed and opportunities past wailing themselves into oblivion. The sound of letting those things go and moving again. Have you ever just go on a diet and someone brings in your favorite treat the next day? Or you say you’re going to work out each day and work gets crazy busy? It’s like life’s way of making you prove you want the change you think you want. Your old ways paid off for your ego in one way or another. Now you have to prove your thoughts and beliefs are different through action. Ego pulls that crap from time to time. Tenacity my friend. Tenacity.

People can change

Sometimes people do well and sometimes people don’t. Crap happens and sometimes you have to just dig your own rear end out of it. Sometimes someone is there to grab you and pull you up, but usually you have to do the work to help yourself.

I’m heartened to believe that people can change. This means we have choices in life. Choices to think in new ways that help us to behave in new ways. Check a few of the links below to books about habits and a few links to some of the other creative work linked to this site.

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