Time to Get Right Back On the Horse

So jazzed from today's Sail the Seven C's workshop.  We had great engagement, discussion, and insightful comments and questions throughout.  For example, a good friend there noted how it often takes a tragic incident, maybe even life threatening or losing someone very close to us to bring us out of our daily habits where we typically fall victim to one or more of the C's--competing, comparing, chasing, controlling, complaining, criticizing, and clinging.  Significant life challenges do indeed have a way of bringing us right into the present moment, where we suddenly realize what life is really about and how the things we constantly fret about really don't matter all that much.  He went on to question how we might maintain this conscious awareness more often, day in and day out, where perhaps it wouldn't take these unfortunate moments to wake us up from our sleep walking through life.  For me this is very hard to do.  It takes diligent, daily practice and moment-to-moment conscious choices to Sail the Seven C's.  Yet I believe its well worth the effort.  Far from perfect as humans, no matter how hard we work, we will of course continue to make mistakes like the one I made just yesterday where I yelled at our two oldest boys, with unfortunate profanity to boot (so much for "Be Kind and Compassionate" in my handling of the situation).  Our boys were fighting once again, this time leading to a physical altercation.  Wish I would have handled this much better than I did and we have all since discussed it as a family.  I sincerely apologized several times to each of them for how I handled the situation and thanked Kim for her help in prompting me to "Stop, Drop, and Be" when I first reacted with anger (Although, I must admit I was annoyed at her for saying that in the heat of the moment....there she goes again Competing and Controlling!  HA!)  Was it perfect?  No.  Was it better than it would have been just a few years ago before daily efforts to Sail the Seven C's?  Yes, no question.  Bottom line, we just have to keep practicing, cut our self and others slack from time to time.  Thank you family.  Now, time for me to get right back on the horse.  Our time on Earth is far too fleeting not to.