One tiny word can make all the difference
change
Changing in a flash
Reversing course can take much time and much space, or no time and no space.
Watching a big semi-trailer drive into a warehouse parking lot and turn around, carefully turning, many times, to and fro, to back into a loading dock, I saw how much time and space the driver needed to reverse his direction.
Changing direction and backing the truck into the loading bay took a long time and the whole parking lot. But it takes no time to pull away. Shifting gears is all that is required.
Mickey Mouse or Michaelangelo?
One of my favourite GEMS! Uncovering your own transformation
Plowing our defects
I had a friend, a grain farmer in Alberta. He had a large tract of land, two square miles, or sections, as prairie landowners describe their land. He had farmed the land for over 20 years.
The main county road ran along one side of the rectangular field. I remember, you turned left onto his access road. When you reached the end of the drive, outbuildings and grain storage tanks were to the left and his house to the right.
If you always do
If you always do,
What you always did,
You will always get,
What you always got.
Desire versus willingness
The only requirement for attendance at an AA meeting is a desire to stop drinking, but the requirement for Membership is a willingness to change myself.