I can remember a time when I thought the phrase “think outside the box” meant something vastly different. Many moons ago, I believed to think outside the box meant you had to be drastically differently, it had to be so wild and out there, genius. At the same time I also held the belief that being different, thinking differently in any shape or form would lead to rejection, exile from my family, peers and community.

What is this highly valuable asset? Its own people. Says Morgan Fraud, the author of The Thinking Corporation, “Given that we are all capable of contributing new ideas, the question becomes how do you successfully generate, capture, process and implement ideas?”

The first time I read this quote it was mind blowing, heart-opening & freeing. It sums up so beautifully a state of be-ing I strive to achieve daily, in essence for me it is how “I don’t take anything personally”.

The road to where I am today, being able to not take things personally has been paved with mental anguish, depression, anger, frustration, heartache & all sorts of suffering. I’m not taking about temporary, momentary or short-lived, I’m talking about thousands of hours, hundreds of days, numerous years of suffering simply because I took things so personal.

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