#ThoughtHealing Quote
for the Week: We can change the quality of our lives by changing the context in
which we view our circumstances. Ernie Zelinkski
I can’t prove it, but I think
there's a pool they started up at work when I returned last month after my
14-month "sabbatical": Pick the
day when McDowell will stop looking refreshed and start looking like she did
when she left here at the end of 2014.
I’m not sure what kind of
odds I’m getting, but in the immortal words of Bruce Willis, “Put me down for twenty, I'm good for it.”
In my first week, several people commented on how refreshed
I looked. Now, admittedly, it helped that I had just gotten back from Hawaii,
so I definitely looked suntanned and rested. But it made me wonder: just how
bad DID I look when I left?
Anyone who read my last book, “I’ve Been Down Here Before, But This Time I Know The Way Out,”
knows that, in 2014, I left the very job I now hold because things had become
completely out of control for me. Not because I disliked the work—on the
contrary, the various things I got to work on were very suited to my interests
and my skills. Instead, I left because my behavior had made me ashamed of
myself, and I couldn’t figure out a way to dig myself out short of running when
I got the chance.
And that chance came when I had the opportunity to accept a
layoff and 26 weeks of unemployment.
Several people have asked, with no small amount of
incredulity in their voices, why in heavens name I actually came back. And not
a few of them have assumed that I must have been forced back somehow—maybe because
I’ve run out of money, or I couldn’t get a job anywhere else.
I’ve started the rumor that I was offered $14 million to
return. It seemed like a nice round figure.
It would be incredibly naive, and just plain stupid, to
think that the workplace has changed in the 14 months that I’ve been gone. Of
course it hasn’t changed. And since it hasn’t changed, most people believe that
it’s just a matter of time before I start looking like I did before.
Except that I know I won’t. And how, you may ask, can I
possibly be so sure about this?
Because, while the workplace hasn’t changed, my
circumstances have. And so have I.
John Ramos said, “For things to change, you must change. For
things to get better, you must get better.”
A lot can happen in 14 months (for that matter, a lot can
happen in 14 minutes). And I had a choice: I could either continue to view my
circumstances in the same way or I could change the context.
And, not only could I change how I viewed my circumstances, I
could change my view of MYSELF within those circumstances.
I’ve changed. I’ve gotten better. And now everything around
me has changed and gotten better as well.
So as you view your own circumstances, is there anything
that you can change so that you, too, can get better?
Think about it!
And, as always,
remember this: It’s NEVER too late to
be what you might have been!
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