63 days down, 302 to go!
Dear Brain,
Is it too much to ask of you to be creative when I need you to? To come up with a clever name for the idea I am about to share? Clearly it is. Because I’ve been sitting here for several hours trying to come up with a catch phrase that will intrigue people and inspire them to respond and yet all that is happening is I am quickly growing frustrated and tired. So the gig is up. I either don’t post and be frustrated that I didn’t or I post something that doesn’t meet my standards. I’m going with the latter. And I am going to be okay with it. In fact, I am going to feel liberated. Trying to live up to my standards all the time is exhausting. Enough already. I put too much pressure on myself and that makes me stressed which makes we want to yell. And we know I can’t do that anymore. So this is my first attempt at letting my standards slide, a little.
P.S. Since you refused to be creative tonight can you at least telepathically ask the readers of this blog to forgiving of the grammatical errors and lack of organizational clarity??
Thanks,
The Orange Rhino
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“Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.” – Anthony Robbins
A friend of mine who helped me get this blog going (THANKS!) gave me the great idea of having a night when I open the blog up for questions and then I can reply to one question that week. I love this idea for so many reasons – and I am brain tired tonight so I am going to use bullet points to tell you why.
- Your questions force me to remember how I have kept from yelling, how I have gotten this far…
- Your questions force me stop and think and push myself a little harder to try new ways to keep from yelling…
- Your questions remind me I am not alone on this journey and force me to KEEP GOING even when I want to quit!
In short, your questions INSPIRE ME. And I hope my answers INSPIRE YOU.
Have you ever noticed that Rhinos always have little birdies on their backs? It is called a symbiotic relationship (thanks Go, Diego go for reminding me of that this morning) – the birds help the Rhino and the Rhino helps the birds.
It is the same here, at The Orange Rhino Challenge. You help me with your questions and in turn, I want to help you.
So once a week I am going to open up the blog for YOUR QUESTIONS. Please post your questions in the comment section below. Any and all questions are welcome, ie:
- Why do I feel like giving up yelling is like giving up drugs or chocolate?
- How do you not yell at your kids during a pillow fight? Walk me through it?
- Do you really feel like a better person?
- Why should I do this Challenge?
I’ve heard/felt (whatever) that keeping things in will just let it fester. If you don’t yell, how do you let out those emotions that a nice scream-fest would relieve you of? I mean, not yelling for a year is some serious business, and that can be some serious festering!
GREAT question! And it is perfectly timed. I am crazed this week – lots going on personally but am working on a response to this. Love the word fester by the way…did you know I’ve been playing with that word in a my mind on the same topic for weeks!!