Don’t Give Up If You Can’t Fly Before You Hatch!

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Your Realtors in the Mountains of NE Georgia and Western NC“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” C.S. Lewis

 

At the end of a very intense yoga session yesterday, the instructor read this quote by C.S. Lewis.  I’d never heard it before and as I sat there taking it in, my thoughts quickly shifted away from my intensely sore muscles.  Instead I thought of how this applies to our everyday life – both personal and business.  

 

We have a vision of where we want to go, who we want to be, what we want to do.  Yet so often we become easily and quickly disenchanted with our goal – our vision – because it doesn’t happen overnight.  You want to give up.  You convince yourself you could never do it.Your Realtors in the Mountains of NE Georgia and Western NC

The egg cannot fly without first taking the time to develop into a bird and likewise we cannot achieve our goals – our vision – without first taking time to develop.

 

To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, we are like eggs at present and we must be hatched or go bad.

Namaste,

Cyndi

Are YOU Receptive To Inspiration?

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Are YOU Receptive To Inspiration?

Are You Receptive To Inspiration

The desire to provide interesting content in a blog keeps me on my toes.  I am constantly asking myself  “what could I write about this or that”.  Of course, the next question to automatically pop into my head is “would anyone find it interesting”?  Keeping the audience in mind, we  make every effort to write content that we hope the general public will find interesting and informative and assist them with their real estate experience. This requires us to keep our eyes, ears and brains wide open to receive that inspiration.

I recently received an email from a friend/client/fellow blogger which contained 100 writing prompts.   This reminded me of when our daughters were taking their end-of-year writing exams in school.  For the test the students are given a prompt and then have to write an essay about it within a certain time-frame.  They were graded on quality of content and, of course, grammar.  To prepare them we would have “practice” exams at home where I would give them a random prompt and have them write for me.  When it came time to take their exams at school, they had the confidence that they could handle any topic and produce proper content with ease.

One of the most important aspects of writing is to keep your mind open and receptive. Inspiration can strike at any time.  However, if your mind is not in the receiving mode, it will simply pass you by totally unnoticed.

This concept applies in other areas of our lives as well.  Opportunity, like inspiration, can come in many forms.  We may be searching for something so intensely that we cannot “see the forest for the trees”.   Sometimes we see something so often that it simply disappears from our mental vision.

Keep your mind open.   Hear the birds.  Smell the roses.   Enjoy the beauty around you.

And, if you’re a writer, having a pen and paper handy helps a lot too!

Bill and Cyndi