Conditioning.
July 3rd, 2014
"The City of Rome wasn't built in a day." It goes for a lot of things. Usually, people associate it with working out. People learn through consistent repetition. A piano is tuned through stretching it's strings, regularly. Your body needs to train constantly to keep it's shape. We're forgetting about a particular aspect that needs to be thoroughly conditioned. Something that didn't come with an instruction manual, and isn't user friendly. The brain. Circle K is something that took tons of conditioning to learn the ropes. Becoming a leader took tons of conditioning to truly understand what it took. We become sociable because of the way we consistently talk to people. Every event, project, and fundraiser, we talk to people. Tabling, for an example. It takes a lot of guts to create a flyer, stand by with your colleagues, and talk to faces that you've never met yet. Some people just swat you away, and some become actually genuinely interested to talk to you. We have good days, and we have bad days. Those who've tabled for a long time have to accept that not everyone is going to be "super Circle K" right off the bat. Even if you think that you're not making a difference when you recruit, it's because you've conditioned your mind into thinking that way. If you associate tabling with people not reciprocating your cause at all, then you've given up. "People will never respond, nor come out anyway. It's just a waste of time." It's worse enough to be thinking this way. It's better if you start noticing that something needs to change.
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A two way street on a mountain. Steep, scary, and you have no idea if some idiot is going to change lanes and crash into you. But you trust that the other cars will stay at their end of the road. They needn't reciprocate the same feelings that you give. It's never about what we get in return. It's about the fulfillment we get from giving something that we are passionate about. It's about sharing our passion with others and becoming a leader. That's what makes people grow into selfless individuals. If we take control of our minds instead of letting our lives control how we feel and how we act, we can change instantly. We change because we feel the need to. If we don't put up some leverage to notice that there's a problem in the way that we think and just accept it with a "That's just the way I am," then there's an apparent problem there. No one said that change is going to be easy. But if you know that your lie would become better with this necessary change, you'll definitely start to become more happier with yourself. Condition your mind to think positively. If change needs to happen, don't do it in a day and expect something to happen. Do it over a course of time until it becomes your lifestyle. Condition yourself to tackle any problem that comes your way.
