Redecorating Ourselves

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Transcript

Redecorating Ourselves

To an artist or writer, the blank page is an invitation. “Welcome to your new home,” it seems to say. And then it adds, “Please furnish and decorate me.”

We were all a proverbial blank page at one time, and then we got decorated.

As the years pass, our ways of doing things may change a bit, but frequently, we continue to display what we learned then. 

It’s hard for our intellect to comprehend that we're mentally the same age as the day a specific habit formed. We recognize that we have physically aged, so that proves we’re no longer who we were then, except for the fact that a habit pattern gets locked in time.

Some may call that immaturity; I view it as reality.

When you continually have the same response to the same stimulus, that should be your first indicator that the cycle had to begin somewhere. You weren’t born with it.

It had a beginning, and that beginning, for the most part, doesn’t evolve. It’s like the insurance maxim my brother-in-law shared with me many years ago: “Some people in the insurance business have 25 years of experience, he said, repeating their first year over and over again.” The phenomenon is not isolated to insurance.

The hurts we’ve endured early in life often don’t evolve because we still experience them as we did at that age, and we respond just like we did then. That’s childishness and reality wrapped up together in an un-evolved pattern.

The reason we act like children sometimes is because our pattern of behavior is that age.

Outgrowing or updating a pattern, first and foremost, needs the light of day known as recognition. We have to recognize that we are responding now as though we were back then. With that recognition in hand, we have an opportunity to evolve.

A powerful recognition question to ask is “Who’s responding, me or my history?”

Your history is a very powerful pattern that can keep you trapped in the past.

The old saying is profound: “If you don’t pay attention to history, it will repeat itself.”

Begin to recognize who is responding and you’ll have a much better chance of redecorating yourself to fit in with who you are today.

All the best,

John