The media overwhelm us with information about the crisis but all that information tells us nothing. We are only touched by it as it affects ourselves, when we hear that our money in the bank is gone, as we are about to be fired, when I hear that my child is terminally ill. I have known people that the message that they were terminally ill at once changed. They were aware what life is and what matters.
At those moments we realize that life is only given to us as a gift that befalls us. We have done nothing and have no right to. The paradox is that we are still in full freedom YES or NO say in this life. All our lives we have a responsibility to the reality of our lives in gratitude to reject or accept all consequences.
Our greatness is the freedom to do something great to exploit the opportunities that life offers us, or addicted to the short-lived results. It's about awareness and an understanding that goes deeper than intellectual knowledge and analysis. We can make this reality of our lives as the true inner self flavors and taste. I may as weather experts know everything about the weather, but otherwise it's on the beach as I enjoy the setting sun.
In a crisis are all familiar certainties rational way. It is a growth process which we are at a higher level where the old certainties no longer offer support. This makes us anxious. There is an awareness needed as deepening understanding of his thinking to the deepest level of our existence. It's like from the top of the mountain, the winding paths where we got lost from a higher level can see.
This mental process of deepening crisis may occur when the certainties of our work and our existence disappear. But they can also be achieved by reflection by the question of why. Toyota sets a new product or major problem five times the question: 'why are we doing this? " In this way, they emit through to a deeper meaning of the problem.
In her book "What's your excuse?" (2009) tells Esther Jacobs about this experience. "When I was by staring out the airplane window, I thought. Suppose that for some reason my last day would be? How would I want to spend? To my surprise I came to the conclusion that I would do exactly what I was doing this time. " She was aware of the gratuity of her life that she just had to accept. She had no money and no job but began her action Coins for Care which they around the introduction of the euro coins remaining inzamelde for charity. She became aware of what was the meaning of her life with a smile and was able to overcome setbacks.
Esther Jacobs, What's your excuse?, Bruna, 2009
| Sincerely, Paul de Blot Professor of Business Spirituality Nyenrode Business Universiteit |  |
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Dear Paul,
Your newsletters always put me to thinking.
And in this newsletter I want to respond.
In another article I read: Life is the plural of guts!
Many people do not have the courage or guts to live their dreams and that is unfortunate. Because it's never too late to live your dreams.
Questions like: What do you always want to do? Which do you dream? are essential questions to answer.
No desire is as big or have the power to achieve. If you dare to listen to your heart and your feelings because that is your inner compass.
Each of us has that inner compass. Dare to feel and listen to your heart to make choices. They are after all the choices we make and not the chances we take determine our future.
Sincerely,
Christa Sinay
@ Christa Sinay: you've just expressed Christa
Dear Mr. Blot,
So well written, thanks for this, whole bull's-eye shot towards my current situation. Have a 1/9 resigned from the business after 25 years working in target driven organizations. About 6 integrations survived, interim actions with surprise beholding, personnel evasive, always nekuitstekend (again deliberately hidden in the ground), clinging to their own values and opinion, the central place of the customer as a benchmark. So now ... emotionally exhausted, happy and confident again otherwise healthy choices for LIFE. Are 44 years and again become a mother (super!), put my family at No. 1, try to network and to work for my own authenticity, its own beliefs based on honest management. I have now started their own business (sales based on open visor) and the crisis will not let me stop doing these things that I want. Investing now is to enjoy, really feel, perspective and sometimes fail to understand how processes running. A glass ceiling does not exist, we women have choices for men are difficult to make those choices. Husband and wife are jointly responsible, some roles are a fact, I live there to!
Everything is love, everything is, everything is nothing. Hope more of you should read!
@: Tanja: Tanja Beautiful, keep it up
Paul Wise,
I am grateful that today I got the tip to look at your site ...... I've come home. It feels like a warm welcome. I'm trying to find a shape that fits to a real movement / awareness to generate business. I am genuinely curious about your vision of what the language that managers and directors in 2009 speak and understand this connection.
warm regards,
Paul
@ Paul van Nierop: The language is very different and the young people understand more than you think
I think it's always nice to hear again how many people, something that seems very negative (eg losing a job) often afterwards as an important turning point in their lives.
I also agree with you that we can say yes or no, only the knowledge and courage are two different things. Few people dare to say no and to lead lives that they really want to lead.
Thanks for your article otherwise!
@ Derek, thanks for your confirmation Derek
Your words always come at the right time. How do you know? (-:
Heart thing
Harry Bartelds
@ Harry Bartelds: Thanks for your astonishment, that's a positive behavior that you're open to new inspiration in the here and now
I'd like to talk face to face soon. Can that be?
Keep up the good work!
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your wise words. Two months ago my employer fire me. Goodbye from me taken, as has been described as beautiful. It was special for me it also felt like goodbye. Farewell until that moment what I've done. Farewell to blockages in the way that you were to continue. Farewell to the old. This has paved the way for the new. I recognized your words thus: Our greatness has the freedom to do something great to exploit the opportunities that life offers us. The growth here is the shedding of the old thinking in fixed structures and paradigms. The old growth is difficult because this constancy provides security. But by dismissing you recognize that it is a false security. There is then indeed a realization as an understanding that goes deeper than intellectual knowledge and analysis. The belief in yourself and the road ahead. But also trust that, despite the resistance and incomprehension that I will experience, you eventually grow in a direction much more certainty, which is not based on fixed structures, but on your own strength. There is therefore no longer speak of anxiety. Apparently we as humans need to occasionally fall to thereby detach from the present and thereby pave the way for the future.
Sincerely,
Peter Meijers
Meijers @ Peter: Peter, I understand your comment. I'm so glad you've come
Dear Paul,
Some time ago I had the pleasure to meet you personally make, and live there every day, the remembrance of fine again before my very warmest thanks.
Your letter of yesterday with the message of Esther Jacobs for many people like a glove but many of us have the excuse that I did not know because we go through the world with our eyes half open. Quite rightly, not literally, but do you write to us first that the bomb itself should fall to our eyes fully open, and then we see the bright and beautiful colors of life.
Yellow is the color of heat, the green color of safety, the red color of love, the purple color of repentance and finally the black color of mourning.
Why should the last color is often ultimately the color that our eyes open for all those other beautiful colors of life, it's so unfortunate that we do not all people of the world can achieve for example the color red because what is beautiful in the than people you love and confidence so they are happy.
Everything in our lives is subordinated when the color black comes into our lives, let us at this moment think of those who face the color black, and all our fellow men, the warm colors of life radiate, as an example for young and old.
Paul you were the fellow who gave me back the colors of life and every day now let me enjoy this prachige colors in a world that is still a lot of beautiful people, places and moments.
Thanks and write much of this impressive letters.
Greetings Cor.
@ Cor van der Linden: Cor I'm glad I'm not being able to support. Many thanks for your support for me. So we strengthen each other and we enrich each other. Thanks
Thank you Paul for your inspiring article. You express the beautiful weather. Life provides opportunities for inner growth. Setbacks are thus challenges to grow. Certainly not easy but the reward is worth the reward of a loving firmer anchorage at soul level.
@ Vonny Nuijten: thanks for your comment and understanding Vonny. Furthermore, many good
Paul Fine and positive message. For me, it feels so indeed that the difficult moments in life are blessings that help us back further and deeper. At the moment I sit in the middle of it is not fine, but afterwards, clambered up again, I am glad that I'm allowed to participate.
@ Remko Wyatt: I'm glad you recognize Remko. The best
Thank you, dear Mr. de Blot, for this beautiful article.
We all sometimes thrown back on ourselves so we end up in a crisis or depression. It is not about, as soon as possible behind us, but to wonder what this has to do for us and our lives.
We then get into the deeper layers of ourselves, our inner world must be addressed and not just our exterior.
This time gives us many opportunities to ask ourselves, what does this mean for us and for ourselves?
Sincerely,
Gert Pasman
@ Gert Pasman: I'm glad you've recognized Gert. Your comment has been enriching for me.
Thanks for this nice words at the beginning of a week!
@ Jan Taco to Gussinklo: Thank you very much for your comment which I also own richer, Jan