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A Year of Contemplation

How you do Anything is How you do Everything (Day 138)

5/18/2019

 
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Attitude is everything. As I near my 50th year, this truism is becoming more and more apparent. Maybe other folx “get it” a lot sooner, and good for them, but it’s taken me awhile to get there. How we show up matters.

I remember sitting in Mrs. Groves’ algebra class back in high school some thirty years ago thinking to myself, “what the hell am I gonna use this stuff for? Math isn’t who I am. This stuff doesn’t matter.” See, while that level of math didn’t necessarily matter to someone pursuing a clerical career, how I approached things I didn’t want to do DID matter.

Spoiled, cis-male, privileged, only child… in the South. That was me. In other words, I was in the ideal position to take full advantage of my situation and fully develop my shitty attitude, and it’s that well-honed shitty attitude with which I did most things. I was my own worst enemy. Why?

I was the embodiment of my ego, not my virtue.

How I handled the things I didn’t want to do affected how I did the things I DID want to do. Not that I was complaining and acting like a jerk about things, but that attitude didn’t just turn off when I was getting my way. Even getting my way came with attitude… entitlement, know-it-all thinking, and overly-critical commentary.

“Like an asshole” became how I did anything.

So, yeah… decades later, I can sit here and write that it’s crucial to do everything with excellence, no matter what it is. Then, you’ll train yourself to do anything with excellence. However, when I was in the middle of it, drowning in attitude, I wasn’t even aware I was going under…

… but you don’t have to drown, too.

Consider this a social, philosophical life preserver.

(See y’all tomorrow)

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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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