Friday, September 30, 2005
Here's Your Round Tuit
The award-winning play, “Rent,” suggests you can measure a life by cups of coffee and the traditional hours and minutes. There’s also measuring by accomplishments: relationship anniversaries, graduations, promotions. And by holidays, religious and family occasions. But what about measuring by personal growth, such as how you treat yourself. Are you more compassionate with yourself now, than you used to be? More forgiving? When you screw up, do you judge harshly, or do you simply observe, learn and move forward?
Are you keeping your word to yourself, about the good things? How do you measure-up there? When you promise yourself something special like a spa day, a sail, a walk in the park, or just curling up with a good book, do you honor and respect yourself enough to keep your promise? Have you noticed that when you nurture yourself, it’s much easier to nurture others?
Here’s an activity to help you use this kind of measure more effectively. Take out a quarter. Put it on a clean piece of paper and use it to trace a circle. That’s a Tuit. Write “Tuit” in the center of the circle. Guard it with your life as Tuits are hard to come by, especially the round ones. For years you’ve heard people say, “I’ll do it as soon as I get a Round Tuit.” Now, you have one. So now you can accomplish all those things you put aside until you got a Round Tuit.
Tomorrow, measure the life you lived today, now, by getting around to the really important things, your soul work, nurturing, forgiving and enjoying yourself and others. Measure by smiles, pleasure and joy. God bless, and use your round Tuit wisely! I adapted this from a speech by Neil Linden, Past Chair of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce.
Are you keeping your word to yourself, about the good things? How do you measure-up there? When you promise yourself something special like a spa day, a sail, a walk in the park, or just curling up with a good book, do you honor and respect yourself enough to keep your promise? Have you noticed that when you nurture yourself, it’s much easier to nurture others?
Here’s an activity to help you use this kind of measure more effectively. Take out a quarter. Put it on a clean piece of paper and use it to trace a circle. That’s a Tuit. Write “Tuit” in the center of the circle. Guard it with your life as Tuits are hard to come by, especially the round ones. For years you’ve heard people say, “I’ll do it as soon as I get a Round Tuit.” Now, you have one. So now you can accomplish all those things you put aside until you got a Round Tuit.
Tomorrow, measure the life you lived today, now, by getting around to the really important things, your soul work, nurturing, forgiving and enjoying yourself and others. Measure by smiles, pleasure and joy. God bless, and use your round Tuit wisely! I adapted this from a speech by Neil Linden, Past Chair of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce.
