When We Couldn't Use the Water (Part 2)

📌📌Want to save this blog post for later?  Use this link to pin this to your Pinterest board.

Why This Isn’t Pollyana Thinking

Oh yes, more thoughts on water, people.  I know you thought I was done. Not quite.

During our adventure without water, I started thinking about Pollyanna thinking.   It’s interesting how, when we practice thought work and Clarity Cycles, it can seem like we’re pretending things are fine when they aren’t.

This is not Pollyana thinking.

The water main broke. That’s a fact.  Nothing I say or do changes it.

It also doesn’t change if someone was at fault.  If it was a mistake.  If someone dropped the ball.  The water main is still broken.

After the water main break, the conversation on the local Facebook page was…well, I’ll let you decide…

-We’re killing the environment with all this bottled water.
-This never happened when I lived in such-and-such a place.
-Why aren’t our tax dollars being used to buy better water mains?

Maybe those thoughts are true. Bottled water does hurt the planet. Maybe other cities do have stronger water mains.  Maybe our tax dollars should have been used more intentionally.  What I want to know is: does this discussion empower me? Does it actually help?  Or does it just inflame?

Today, on this particular Saturday, despite all the thoughts and opinions, the fact is still the same: I can’t drink water out of my faucet.

So, am I going to sit here parched and righteous?

Or am I going to drink the bottled water: imperfect, inconvenient, but a temporary solution?

This is where life coaching comes in.  My clients often don’t believe me when I say: You are responsible for your experience.

Not for the water main breaking, or the politics of the bottled water, or what your neighbor thinks about it.

You are responsible for how you show up in the middle of it.  The real question, the question that can help steer you, is: How do you want to feel when this is over?

I want to feel like I didn’t want to make it harder for everybody.

I want to feel like the high school kids having fun tossing water bottles in the back of cars.

I want to feel like I showed up for myself and for my neighbors.

The key word here is for.  Showing up in love, as my true self, is always about for.  I am for what is needed.  For helping.  For making it easier instead of harder.

Because the water main break? That’s a fact.

But my experience? That’s on me.

I want my experience to be marked by  love…by showing up for. For neighbors, for kindness, for lightening the load.

I’ll be cheering you on,

Here's my book...✨Practicing Enough  

Here's my other book...✨Staying True 

📌Follow me on Pinterest 

📬Join the Newsletter

💬Curious about coaching? 
       Book a complimentary 50 minute Clarity Call.  
       (No Pressure, just a conversation about what's on your heart.)