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RE: 💎 My 2017: Welcoming the New Year - Envisioning My Best Year Yet!
It’s great that you’ve been able to stick to your own tradition.
“I am firm and flexible” I should use that too!
It’s great that you’ve been able to stick to your own tradition.
“I am firm and flexible” I should use that too!
Hey, thanks for your reply! In my work, when we're with a team and we're rallying our forces together, we say "Firmeza!" It's a Portuguese expression that roughly translates to "firmness," but this term means something so much more too. It's a firmness, so it is a strength but not at all a rigidness, so it's a flexible kind of strength. For example, we can be firm in our thoughts and the greater strength comes from a flexibility, like a lotus flower blooming from the mud, or a desert flower sprouting up and blossoming, even in the fiercest wind.
This has been a common theme in my 2017. Very similar to something I just wrote. I learned to stop fighting against what I don’t like because that kind of rigidity will only break me. Instead I just work on what I do like and ignore the rest unless I see something positive I can do
Aho. I honor you for accentuating the positive. Thanks for doing that. It's a practice for me–holding an attitude of firmeza. Ultimately, I think it makes a big difference in the world when people (even the littlest people) make healthy choices like this with our thoughts, words, and actions. It's a love ripple with far-reaching waves. It's a way of making and keeping peace in the world, beginning with being peace right here and now just as we are.