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Friday Flow 3/5/21
Skiing, acceptance, and embracing change
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.- Rumi
Pizza, pizza, pizza the instructor said to me while I skied down the hill frantically unable to stop while I tumbled to the ground. As I lay there on the ground facedown in the snow laughing, I could not help but think about the lessons I struggled with while embracing previous transitions in life. I’ve always been competitive and impatient, and in the Marines, I had a nickname called “TAZ”, and will probably talk about this in another flow.
Learning something like skiing is humbling because it reminds me to stay out of my head and accept the process. I suppose on a deeper level, learning to ski is a lot like a transition in life. Because whenever I learn a new skill, I have to understand that if I try to rush the process, I lose sight of the necessary steps to get to where I want to go. I think we all do this when we face a tough transition. And it’s this resistance to slowing down and enjoying the process that prevents us from becoming the best version of ourselves. It steers you away from all the opportunities in front of you.
But, you have nowhere to go.
So skiing is teaching me to make a commitment to accept responsibility for my life and…
