Make Yourself C-Worthy

One day sometime ago after Kim was sharing some of our thinking around Sailing the Seven Cs with our middle son, Jonah, he came up with a clever way of expressing what she was conveying to him.  Kim was sharing how we really must be diligent in making conscious choices, trying our best to choose our thoughts and behaviors throughout our day in order to avoid falling into one or more of the C behaviors.  She shared examples like sitting down to write a gratitude list, calling or helping a close friend, sending thank you notes, smiling and laughing more often, getting enough rest, eating healthy, going for a walk, etc.  Jonah called this “making your ship, or yourself C-worthy”.  If you think about it, he makes good sense.  We know from countless great thinkers through the ages that we get back from life what we think about and focus our attention, words, and behaviors on.  In focusing, conscious or not, on one or more of the C’s—complaining, criticizing, clinging, controlling, competing, comparing, and chasing—we in effect slowly grow bigger and bigger holes in our self, our ship if you will, letting more and more water seep into the hull of our ship.  If we aren’t careful, taking on too much water, we might one day find that we are thoroughly “C-sick” or worse yet, “lost at C”.  HA!  I know, cheesy right, but so true.  One thing is for certain, if we don’t choose better, like some of the examples Kim shared with Jonah, we might just find our self or our ship, sunk, in effect overstressed and overtaxed, with all kinds of resulting consequences to our health over time.  Is our effectiveness at Sailing the Seven C’s really important to our overall health?  You bet!  That’s how important it really is.  Okay Jonah, let’s keep working together with our family and friends to make ourselves C-Worthy.