Drinking: Fondo Paez Coffee
Listening to: Coldplay shuffle beginning with Yellow from Parachutes {which I bought for 6 pounds at Virgin Records on Oxford Street in London while on my honeymoon} and ending with Lost by Coldplay & Jay-Z.
My day job has a large listening and giving advice component and I hope that is part of my calling. I enjoy helping people. This morning, I woke up with a crick in my neck from the day that began at 7 a.m. and ended at 2 a.m. much of which was spent with my head and shoulder propping up a phone receiver or cell phone depending on the time of day. Even before I started practicing law in 2002, I spent a lot of time as the go-to secret keeper, advice giver for many friends and my ego* really likes thinking of itself as important enough to take it in. The ego* thinks “I must give good advice – I must be valuable” and so on. I realize this is just a role.
The truth is, if I do give good advice, it’s only because I’ve been given good advice. While I love to help people, adore solving problems, and feel great when I can help someone see their value, when I can’t, it’s really hard for me {or is it ego*} to let it go. I need to work on this. What I should do is tell everyone, myself included, that 90% of all of our challenges in life come from our egos* and that we all get lost from time to time.
*When I say “ego” I’m referring to the way that Eckhart Tolle identifies ego in his book, A New Earth.
by Teaworthy
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