Getting out of the Box -Winter & Spring

April 22nd, 2008 at 07:43pm Floretta Leavy

For awhile there winter wanted to hang on to spring as if to say “I need you, let me stay a little while longer, I want make any noise, I’ll ease my out.”  Spring on the other hand wanted winter to go back to doing what it normally does this time of year - go into hibernation until its season arise again.  It’s like breaking the barrier of a comfort zone, winter didn’t like that.  When you have zones, especially if they are comforts they seem to feel right and no matter what is going on around you, you need that zone to feel good, to be content.  Sometimes though you have to let go - step outside the box, but stay interdependent.  That’s what winter didn’t understand.  Although spring knew it could handle its season on its own, it still needed winter. Spring isn’t letting go entirely, it just preparing for all the things in between until winter season comes full circle again.   You see the beauty of winter to spring is that you have all the stuff in the middle thereby, making what winter did is enough to sustain what  spring will.  Now that we see the lighter side of it all we can truly say that spring can manage on its own for a while-its the season, just like everything else- a season of changes.  Winter begone, but stay interdependent.  So, if you’ve watch the difference perhaps you would see that getting out of the box isn’t all that bad, in fact its a medicine.  Hanging on can blind us to the true causes of problems and staying blind can actually make our matters worse.  That’s sort of like self-deception.  Winter was blind for a while and now that its season is over spring can finally step out of the box build on some solutions in and about our town.  So we’re losing three Rockford principles, we’ve got gas prices on the rise, we have the education of our futures at an all time high, we have pharmaceuticals company selling synthetic medicine, we have world trades gone somewhere and yes, we have the great presidential race of all time and I want speak about crime and losses, at least not here.  I just wanted to bring up the fact that there is nothing wrong with getting out of the box to reconstitute and reorganize only to surface (in due season) with a vivid understanding of building teamwork, reducing conflicts, check on learning and the desire to achieve results.  Watch winter in its season in the meantime though let’s get spring results!

 The Arbinger Institute says it this way “In organizations as varied as commercial ventures, neighborhoods, and families, what is needed most is people not just with influence but with influence for good.” 

Entry Filed under: Uncategorized