Curbing the Grumps

It’s getting darker and darker this time of year (for most of you reading this).

So it’s a little easier to complain. It’s understandable. Yet …

One of our team’s constellation books (a book we reread as a team for guidance) is Humility Rules by the Benedictine Brother Wetta. It is pithy advice (with illustrations) on how to live in community (a lot of self-leadership principles for persons in community). I love the book like a good correction. It sets me in the right direction with a spring in my step each time I read it.

St. Benedict thought that grumbling in a community was worse than murder.

In ourselves, how can we curb grumbling? We can hold the thought-find the adventure/challenge/gratitude in it. We can revise our actions-which might involve an apology and asking for grace (even grace to ourselves). We can begin again with a bit more gratitude for the opportunity to be in the game, the area, in the job we have, in this life before us in the next moment.

Peace to you and yours,

CEO & Founder

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