Message of the Day - Our Inner Explorers and Inner Settlers

Good Morning,

 

Over this last weekend I finished “Words of Common Sense: For Mind, Body, and Soul’ by Brother David Steindl-Rast (http://www.amazon.com/Words-Common-Sense-Mind-Body/dp/189015198X) and found it to be quite delightful.

 

One of the points I drew out of this reading was the inner challenges we face by two facets of our beings, the Explorer and Settler.

 

Our inner explorer looks for new challenges and ways to experience new things. The explorer tires of the same ol same ol and hungers for something new.

 

Our inner settler likes to spend time in the comfortable homestead we created with all the familiar trappings of life, everything where it should be.

 

At times, these two facets of our being come in conflict with each other. We see a new challenge, a new course, a new way of life, and the explorer within us starts salivating, and at the same time the settler covers his eyes and goes back to the house to try and ignore it all.

 

Sometimes, the opportunities wonderful and the explorer wins out and we travel down new worlds. Sometimes the settler wins out and we pass up these opportunities.

 

Both the settler and explorer have value in our lives, we just need to find ways to make sure that each of them makes the best decision for us.

 

If we look over our lives and see that we have been mostly an explorer, or a settler, maybe it is time to give the other side a little more air time and either settle down a bit more if we have been expeditious explorers, or get our butts moving if we have been settling too much.

 

In the end it is all a balance, but we need to work hard to find that balance so that we can get the most out of life.

 

So let out your inner explorer and inner settler, and learn to understand them better, but do not let either one take over exclusively.

 

Enjoy!

 

Sanford Berenberg

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