Craig Thielen with 1% better mindset. The biggest takeaways for Carrie were gratefulness and patience. Stress causes growth, challenges, obstacle. All of these things are necessary for growth. Perhaps patience is better applied to the big things in life.
Craig Thielen with 1% better mindset. Today is a continuation of my last session where I talked about a little incident that I had with my back. Here I am a week later and I'll update you on that.
The biggest takeaways for Carrie were gratefulness and patience. Stress causes growth, challenges, obstacle. All of these things are necessary for growth. Me blowing up my back helped me be a better person.
The Ying and the Yang: What's the opposite of patience? It's urgency. We can't be patient with everything in life if we have a cut on our hand. Perhaps patience is better applied to the big things in life. I would love to hear what you're doing to promote gratefulness and patience in your life.
Good morning, Cadre. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone's doing well today. I want to talk about, by the way, Craig Thielen with 1% better mindset. If you have joined before, welcome back. If this is your first time, welcome to the 1% better mindset. Today is a continuation of my last session where I talked about a little incident that I had with my back. And I want to continue to talk about that and what I learned from that. So, first of all, just really quickly, I blow up my back. And it was one of those bad ones where I was basically couldn't walk, couldn't hardly breathe.
It took me five minutes to get in bed, out of bed. It took me 15 minutes to walk from upstairs to downstairs. One of those. And it really jolts you. It really changes everything. You. You worry greatly about sneezing because it would be so painful. And so the biggest takeaways that. That I have about that, by the way, here I am a week later, and I'll. I'll update you on that. But first, you know the takeaways from it. The biggest takeaways. And welcome El Jirbiz, 42. And welcome Carrie. Thanks for joining.
The biggest takeaways for me were gratefulness and patience. So, first of all, when you literally can't move and everything you do takes great effort and thought, it just makes you grateful that, wow, just to be able to do simple things, to be able to put socks on, to be able to brush your teeth, the very basic things that you take for granted just makes you grateful for your health. And when you're not having severe pain, the patience part took a while. So when I was sort of immobile for a while, it makes you think a lot.
It really forces you to just reflect what happened, how did it happen? There's a little bit of woe is me in there. And quickly move to, how do I get this better? How do I prevent it from happening? And it takes a lot of patience, because when it happened, and I think I'm just using this as an analogy for anything in life that we have that is painful, anything in life that is an obstacle, that's a challenge. But I mean, a severe one. I think it's a very good analogy. It takes patience because when it happened, I didn't know how long it was gonna last.
I didn't know if it's gonna be a day, a week, a month, if it's gonna be something would never leave me. And in some ways, I know it won't because it's the cause of it's a bulging disc. So it takes great patience to, to trust and that it is going to get better and to just learn from the experience. I think it reminded me that really all growth requires us to take sometimes steps backwards. Stress causes growth, challenges, obstacle. All of these things are necessary for growth. So I believe, you know, me blowing up my back helped me be a better person, helped me grow as a person because it allowed me to reflect, be grateful and really think about this idea of patience.
So let's go a little bit deeper on patience. So we've all heard patience is a virtue, which I believe it's challenging, it's difficult, it's not easy, it's very difficult. More so maybe now than ever before. But I also believe that patience leads to true wisdom. Like it really allows you to slow down and think and be thoughtful and look at the big picture and look at things much deeper than you normally would in the fast pace of life. So when I say patience, I mean patience with yourself and whatever challenge and obstacles you have.
Patience with those around you. Sometimes we're all impatient with people. They're not thinking, like they don't understand, they're not acting, they say things that we don't like all of these things. And even patience with your own growth in how you are growing as a person. I think sometimes we want the 12 step plan and we want to rush through it. On the other hand, patience, what's the opposite of patience? What's the Ying and the Yang? It's urgency. And I clearly we need urgency. We can't be patient with everything in life if we have a cut on our hand.
Welcome. Speak. Wonder. Nice to see you. We need to deal with it or we have deadlines at work, or we have things that require urgency to be successful in certain parts of our life. So I think it's always important to look at the Ying and the yang and find balance. So one way that I would think about balancing patience with urgency is perhaps this is one way to think about it is urgency is required for some of the day to day things, some of the small things. And perhaps patience is better applied to the big things in life.
So that's one way to look at it. I think it's always gonna be a balance there. So thankfully in my case, it. And it's even. I couldn't even imagine it a week ago, but I'm back, I'd say 95% to normal. I'm even back doing athletic events, pickleball. And I couldn't imagine that a week ago. So I'm very grateful for that, and very grateful for the experience that what it caused me to think about and the challenges. And again, having patience. There's so much to learn from it, and I hope that you can take a nugget or two and apply it to your life.
If there's things that are challenging, things that are stressful, things that are not where you want them to be able to find a way to allow that to promote growth in another part of you. So thank you for listening. I would love to hear in the comments what you're your reaction is what you're doing to promote gratefulness and patience in your life. And I hope you have a great day. Take care.
