Try Something Else
This week we focus on the concept of “Easy Does It”. Today’s MotD encourages us to try something else especially when we’ve hit a wall or when trying harder isn’t cutting it. It’s like the definition of insanity: when we keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Like Melody Beattie says: “When force and trying harder doesn’t do it, try something else.”
Sometimes we lock in on the how of what we want, like we have blinders on. We’re encouraged to take the blinders off and consider the possibility that there may be better way. For instance, a couple of decades ago, while working during the day as an data entry temp and going to school at night for my computer science degree, I knew I wanted to work at this one particular corporation. I tried the “normal” way of walking in their door and filling out an application. I was turned down. Not ready to give up, I called other temp agencies to find which ones placed temps at this corporation. I knew that if I could get in the door as a temp and show them what a great employee I would be for them, I could eventually get hired.
When I found the appropriate temp agency, I applied knowing full well I would be hired…I was an excellent data entry clerk (at the time). Once they hired me, I told them I only wanted temp jobs at this one corporation. Within two weeks of my first temp job there, I talked to the boss I was placed with and he set me up to participate in the summer intern program for software engineering students. Goodbye temping hello full-time job. I wound up working there for 5 years before moving out of state for new adventures.
How about you? Do you keep doing the same thing repeatedly expecting different results? Maybe it’s time to reconsider, to try a different perspective or approach…to try something else. Would you be open to that?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
Creating Mandalas 🔆 Awakening Inner Harmony
ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 