💯 TREE 373: Kind, then honest
Throwback Thursday – TREE 7
One.
First be kind to yourself.
Then be honest with yourself.
This is the constructive way to change.
The typical way is to beat yourself up over failure,
skirt past the root cause,
and do nothing because you are so demotivated.
If you can extend grace to other people, you can extend it to yourself.
First, be kind to yourself.
Then be honest with yourself.
Two.
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Three.
Ease your way into Thursday. By the end of this you will be feeling the bounce.
I predict that tomorrow’s FIELD GUIDE will have something to do with weather. There’s a 90% chance you will learn a bunch of new stuff.
Next week, one of my favourite guest authors from last year, music producer Steven Lee Tracy is back with a terrible portmanteau and some very excellent ideas about (not) getting paid to do the thing you love.
Grow slowly
Jeff
Love this!! Can we start a campaign to abolish the garbage that is "Gotta be cruel to be kind" and replace it with "Gotta be kind to be kind"? A couple of years back I wrote a whole programme for social workers supporting them to be more relational in the work they do (I know, I know...but start with what you've got..) - The intro to the whole programme had one sentence that laid out the principles: "The underpinning principle is “Always Be Kind” as this encourages us to behave with care and compassion, even when working with challenges and disagreements. If you are not kind, then none of the other principles will be relevant to you!!" A group of managers asked me to change it to not include the word 'kind'....I refused, but they went ahead anyway. Long story short - They were self-critical, overwhelmed, cynical and stressed folk. If only they could have been kinder to themselves then just maybe they would have understood what I was saying to them....
I want to sing this from the tallest mountaintops. You put it so nicely, too. 100x yes.