Volume XXII-Avril-XXMM
I got a late start today, so this will be super short. We hope.
I saw the post on the left on LinkedIn tonight and remembered the meme (on the right) making the rounds on Facebook for the last few days. It occurs to me these aren’t baseless – a lot of people feel this way or these wouldn’t get created and then go viral.
It’s interesting our world has evolved in a direction that forces people into binary choices: one way OR the other… my side OR theirs… human lives OR the economy… etc. In my experience (limited to almost just about fifty years), the real answer that works and will last is never EITHER/OR, it’s almost always a form of YES, AND… and involves Compromise (which inherently takes more work, more time, more effort, more compassion, and eventually [usually] some form of concession). If Since we’re going to thrive in this newly evolved paradigm… we’ll need to stay open to STAYING OPEN… staying open to each other, to new ideas, to new ways to engage in our communities and in the workplace. It’s going to be a very interesting next couple of years, but it’s going to be a lot smoother if we’re open to co-creating “how” to make it work instead of “which” single idea wins.
Yes… broken crayons still color. You can be concerned about the economy, and worried about public health, and troubled by the state of our political leadership. You get to choose all of those, all at the same time… and you get to choose what you’re going to do about it. The 64-count Crayola box is all yours! G’night folks!
