Got Pain?
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I don’t often get headaches, but on Wednesday, I had a duzy.
I spent most of the morning and afternoon trying to figure out why I had this headache and what type it was:
- Was I struggling with something with my business?
- Was something out of alignment?
- Was I just reacting to the high-low pressures of the upcoming summer storms?
- Is my body just telling me to shut-down for awhile?
- Should I focus and mediate this headache away?
- Lay down for awhile? (since I can’t seem to concentrate anyways)
- Was this something people call a migraine?
- Was it a sinus headache?
Finally it got so distracting that I could not move my head without pain. So — late afternoon, I decided to take a trip to the drug store and get some headache-powder. The Goody headache powder (not recommending it — just stating that it works for me) has always works for me. But by the time I entered the drug store — I could not remember why I was there!
“This damn headache — it’s so distracting. Oh-yeah…. I’m here because of the headache.”
Within 5 minutes of taking the powder — I was feeling much better. I can’t honestly tell you when it completely when away — because my attention was no longer on the headache. But it is easy to see how we can get caught up and distracted in the “pain” that we don’t take the action to remove it. I often use the term “we’re postponing the cure”. We’re slowing ourselves down.
I spent most of the day wondering “why I had a headache” (thinking about it) — instead of actually doing something about it. I already knew Goody would help — yet it wasn’t until late afternoon that I decided to go to the store and get it. I spent most of my day focused on the problem and not the solution ……We talk more about how to incorporate this philosophy into the real-world professional environment in my on-line coaching academy series. <check out our GoTo Academy: Soft Skills Tools for the GoTo Professional>
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