Growth or Decay… YOU DECIDE!!!!
September 29th, 2008

SEAN WARD’S MONDAY MEDITATION

Do you sometimes feel like you’re living in a state of perpetual ‘in a minute’? How many projects have you been meaning to start, calls you’ve been meaning to make, plans you’ve been meaning to set in motion? It’s one thing to take a relaxed pace, but I think that too often we get to feeling like we can put the world on hold. But there is no standing still. The world is moving with or without us, and we are always either evolving or devolving, down to each passing moment.

We excuse our bad habits and poor behaviors by telling ourselves that each instance is a ‘just this once’ event.  We hold a vision of our true selves, and believe that it will reveal itself a little later on, after we have our fun ‘just this once’.  But all of those singular instances add up and who we really are is defined not by our picture of ourselves, but by the sum total of all of all of the little decisions we make moment-to-moment every day.

So every time you make a choice, stop and ask: Is this choice contributing to my growth or my decay?

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  • http://Myspace.com/dasshoes Ian G Gillis

    No growth or decay…. just maintenance. Very poor maintenance.

  • http://www.myspace.com/miketuckerart Tucker Mike

    Darn you, Sean Ward!

    ( More of “Key” the webcomic, now up at http://www.comicspace.com/tuckermike/comics.php?action=gallery&comic_id=22834 )

  • http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~rawn Barry Rawn

    Dude, this is totally true- pick any aspect of your life. It’s either growing, or decaying. There’s no standing still.

    Little, momentary hardships- getting to your goal involves surmounting them, every minute, instead of choosing to procrastinate or do something easy. By seeing that you can choose again, you realize you have control over your life. It’s a bitch- but it makes life taste awesome!

    Here’s a little quote from George Bernard Shaw: “Do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.” If you want something great, begin. Actually, it can be happiness.

  • http://www.seanward.net Sean

    Ian: very poor maintenance? What’s poor about it?

    Barry: Happiness doesn’t mean a perpetual state of ecstacy. I think happiness is just being able to go to bed at night feeling like your life is better now than when you got up this morning. It takes a lot of work that isn’t fun to get there. Mr. Shaw nailed it.

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