Sometimes "Just do it!" is the best strategy. Sometimes we need to "try, try, try." Some days we can finish tasks almost on autopilot and do them well. Other days our best effort – even bordering on superhuman – yields next to nothing.
I've created about a dozen versions of my header collage. The first featured a girl looking down with nothing in her hands. Today it's a pair of the most recent. On the edge of a wooden fence that maybe hides new construction, a renovation, or a future surprise, she's managed to gather scattered flowers whilst at the same time she deftly balances herself.
We've all been to school, done homework and housework, had workplace projects to start and often finish. In general a moderate amount of effort gets the best results. Try too hard? Most people get tied up in knots. You become so involved you almost don't distinguish between you (the doer), and the required job (that hopefully becomes the done). Don't make much effort or even sit back and snooze? Nothing happens because there's zero connection between you and what needs doing.
Back to my illustration. Do you think she tried hard, didn't try at all, or something "other" in order to gather all those flowers together and keep cool holding them? I don't recall the situation we were discussing, but it must have been something I had trouble beginning or finishing when my therapist advised me simply to "let it happen the way grace happens."
I like your point that while effort is important, sometimes we can try too hard and get caught up in overthinking. We definitely need to try to find a balance! Visiting from FMF.
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ReplyDeletetried working through the pain,
and was hoisted on my own petard
of searching out the gain
that is hidden in each day
that I might seek and find,
even when my pallor's gray
and O2 hoses stream behind.
And so I had to take a rest
with Peanut the Great Dane,
who is Pea-nuttiest at best,
and who thinks me insane
that I cannot find bliss and joy
in tearing up a rawhide toy.
Picking flowers is easy. Life can be hard. Interesting analysis. G
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