"This week, I ar' be mostly eatin' carrots!"

Home Blog Alignment Coaching Audio Library About Contact Home Blog Alignment Coaching Audio Library About Contact .mobile-nav-toggle-label { display: inline-block !important; } "This week, I ar' be mostly eatin' carrots!" Wed, 11 May 2022 18:00:27 +0000 Trusting the Flow If you were ever a fan of ‘The Fast Show’, you’ll remember a great character, Jesse, who appeared every week. His one-liner, delivered to perfection, became part of our daily dialogue at home. The camera would pan in on a dilapidated shed, with a subtitle along the lines of ‘This week’s nutritional advice’ on the screen. Jesse — played by the wonderful Mark Williams — looking like a hairy sack of turnips, would emerge from the shed, shuffle a bit, like an awkward infant on a nativity stage and then say to the camera with great seriousness, something along the lines of: “This week, I ar’ be mostly eatin’ carrots.” At which point he’d turn around and shuffle back into his shack. Glorious! This scene came to my mind as I pondered my offering to you this week. The randomness and hilarity of Jesse’s considered advice sums up how life is unfolding right now. Simplicity with a dash of absurdity seems the perfect set up as I share my thoughts with you. This week, I ar’ be mostly trustin’ the Flow. The struggle I’ve had recently is a familiar one. Perhaps you know it too. How do I get myself aligned with the things I have to do? It is a common enough experience — as soon as a commitment is made, obligation born from it means it’s the last thing on Earth I want to do! I’d been trying to make myself want to do the tasks I’d committed myself to. And it was bringing me down. One of the benefits of this time of great contrast: I have no tolerance for joyless activity. Yet another morning’s mourning brought me to my knees. I’d been doing so well until recently. I’d thought most of the Great Sadness was over. I know, grieving takes much more time than we’d like to imagine, but what was this week’s misery really abo