The Puzzle

Everything changes. Everything is in a state of flux. It is fluid and dynamic. There is birth, growth, entropy, decay and death. With any luck at all, or with a great deal of self-actualization, awareness and effort, we have some fun along the way, learn a few things and perhaps even help others. The number of pieces in this puzzle has been estimated to be ten thousand. Ten thousand individual, constantly changing, bouncing off walls in a sub-atomic rave, relentlessly interacting in a complex process of impossible magnitude, things. And that is just today. Fit in last year's missing baggage and next year's fear and anxiety and you have a real 'now' puzzle. Staying present. Focused. Managing growth. Charting courses. Looking for that odd shape to fit the leadership element held snug between thumb and index finger. Seek, search, test, create.

Our thoughts create our realities. I was reminded yesterday that there exist but a pair of things you can do to fail:

1) Not giving your all, and

2) Never starting.

We face these challenges every day. We use our positive conditioning and deep understanding of value, process and joy as pieces of the bigger picture, eagerly testing them in different locations to augment the whole. Experience is the voice of wisdom. Better to do this, than that. The patience piece has coves and protrusions of fascinating complexity, demanding saint-like virtue. Have faith, this hardship will pass. The awareness piece fits only when you surrender. Let go. Your bias', failures, defeats, losses, rejections and traumas do not serve you any longer, they are the square peg, and this whole is round.

You are not the same today as you were yesterday. In a stunning display of algorithmic adaptation, you added some power to the mix. The data showed improvement, science framing the masterpiece you call a work in progress. Your textural application of crimson, indigo and burnt umber dazzles the imagination, the colors of speed. Together, math and mayhem, data and dreams, numbers and colors bring the big picture into crisp focus. The body's bottom line. Your net worth has nothing to do with currency.

It is you becoming you. The big picture you. The ALL you. Every day we have a miraculous opportunity to add another piece to the grand puzzle of life we are tasked with managing. US. We change the whole by changing parts of the whole. That is your part. You are responsible and accountable for your part. The entire cosmos depends upon you, me, he, she, it, them and us.

We are all in this together folks. We are all connected. The pieces of the puzzle are here. All we need to do is fit them together.

What a wonderful and noble quest. Today let's use the power of our thoughts to focus on the workout. Keep in the present moment, affirm your progress, feel alive and capable of enacting positive change, enjoy this challenge, you are up to the task. Breathe.

Pic: Yasuyo inside the HoM, as the snow flurries out. The paradox and the dynamic. All pieces of the same puzzle.