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That's my studio. Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace.
And to Thursday morning.
So a few days back I was chatting with a friend.
I think he'd recently been reading a thread on, I don't know, Slack or LinkedIn or one of those things.
And he was talking about a particular person he'd come across who was receiving a lot of congratulations from their friends, from their work colleagues for having landed their dream job.
And he said he couldn't quite understand the first sort of, you know, of course people would be happy for this person.
But when he started looking into it, he started to understand why there was so much sort of feedback, and not even from sort of strangers, not just people that they knew.
And it was because this person had been after this job for a really, really long time.
They'd applied and hadn't got the job on multiple occasions.
But it continued and had this sort of sense of perseverance, a sense of, okay, this is something I really want to do.
It's not about whether I get it yes or no, whether it works straight away.
It's about how do I create the conditions and how do I persevere to the point where eventually it starts to work for me.
And he was interesting as we were chatting through this.
And I was thinking when I was learning meditation at first, I was told I'd need two things.
I'd need commitment and I'd need flexibility.
In fact, I remember saying to the teacher, actually I'm still pretty young.
I was in my early 20s at the time.
And I was thinking maybe there's still a bit more life to live before I shut myself away in the monastery.
And he said, trust me, the older you get, the harder it'll be to commit.
He said not just energetically, mentally, emotionally, he said, you know, you're probably going to have, you know, a partner, you can have a family, it's going to be hard to find the time.
But he said just generally, when we're younger, we tend to have a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of passion and sort of channeled in the right way.
That can be a really sort of positive thing.
But he said, you know, equally it needs to be balanced with flexibility.
Because if we're too rigid, then that tends to cause some problems as well.
When we think about sort of training the mind or actually any aspect in life, whether it's in our meditation practice, whether it's in sort of a direction in our personal life, in a work life, whatever it might be.
Having that balance of commitment and flexibility is really important.
The commitment is simply what is our direction?
And how can we show up moment to moment, day to day, to continue to ward that point?
That doesn't mean that we've so fixated on that point, in the future that we're not paying attention to the present right now, in fact quite the opposite.
That's simply there to provide a sense of purpose in our life.
But we don't get that sense of purpose unless we focus on moment to moment and day to day.
So that sort of creates this sense of direction.
But equally, life just isn't like that.
Life generally doesn't allow us to go in a straight line like that.
Maybe life's not even meant to go in a straight line like that.
Things happen, we change, other people change, situations change.
So we have to be flexible.
That doesn't mean that we have to abandon that point in the future.
It doesn't mean that we don't continue with our commitment, but it means that we're flexible with our commitment.
You know, even at the most basic level, let's use meditation as an example.
Maybe we've fallen off the wagon and we think, oh, there's no point anymore.
Well, yeah, there's a point.
As soon as we realize we've fallen off, we get back on again.
Maybe we can't do it at the time of day that we'd like to do it.
So we think, oh, well, I've missed it.
I'll do it tomorrow. Well, we can be flexible.
We can do it at a different time of day.
Maybe it doesn't go as we would like it to.
And we think, oh, I'm doing something wrong.
Well, we can be flexible and say, well, today was different.
I don't know why, but it was just different.
In every area of life, there is room for both.
And it's when I feel like the real strength actually is those two things coming together.
When we have a clear sense of direction, a clear sense of purpose, where we're focused moment to moment day to day, but we do that with a sense of flexibility, a sense of ease, where we're not giving ourselves a hard time, where we're allowing ourselves to live and enjoy life whilst at the same time working towards something really valuable.
Knowing that actually right now is really valuable too.
Thanks for listening today.
I'll look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.
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