Reaching Beyond The Lost

Listen to "Reaching Beyond The Lost" on Spreaker. We are so consumed with content, news events, worry, fear and other emotional tributaries that our focus is shifting. How many times a day do you lose something and can't believe where it was located? The Blind Gorilla is a real book that opens our eyes to understanding how to move through those moments when you can be at a gathering and never see someone you know. They were there! They have a selfie to prove it. Yet you caught nothing in the way of identifying to be true. On this podcast episode we talk about two incredible ways to deal with things we've misplaced or lost. The first is to look for the odd. My wife's smart phone is jet black. She couldn't find it and just like every other day she's turned the ringer off so that adds difficulty to the search. Look for the odd. Jet black phone sitting on a book cover which also is jet black. The odd ball moment was based on the full title of the book not being present. You honestly couldn't see the phone. Nor could you mind comprehend why the book title was partially there. There it was the phone! Most importantly don't get angry. That's when we start moving things around and somehow some way the missing object is now under a bunch of magazines or other items. I shrug my shoulders and tell myself, "I guess I really didn't need it in this moment of Now." This all started because I misplaced the top of my writing instrument this morning. How? Why? Where? It didn't matter. I still had ink. I still had the nib of the writing instrument filled with the ink. I still had the writing paper waiting for the nib filled with ink. So what's the problem? I located the top or cap of the writing instrument about five minutes later. It had fallen onto my lap. What? But I would've felt it! Did I take it off and lay it there? How would it have made its way to a very obvious place? It doesn't matter. No energy was wasted by way of using anger. In all things we think we lose there is a path to where they will be found. Hold onto that thought while searching through thousands of job applications today. Hold onto that thought while sifting through every reason why your kids are crazy animals again and again. Answers will be found while you let a journey with peace be the filter that keeps your focus intact.