Lolly Daskal

Crisis Mentality

Some people would not know what to do without drama and crisis. So they remain at the control tower, binoculars in hand, on the lookout at all times for the next major disaster.

When no crisis looms on the horizon, they magnify small problems into events of enormous proportions. If the sea is calm for the moment, with not even a small difficulty to liven things up, they simply focus on worrying about something awful that has not happened yet but might at any moment.

They are also talented at becoming involved in other people’s crisis, jumping right in to offer advice and even carry the load as if it were their own.

The reality, of course, is that the only crisis such people suffer from is boredom. They generally need a great deal of excitement and drama to give them a sense of importance and control, and they use crisis to provide them with the stimulation they cannot find in ordinary, everyday peaceful existence.

Wouldn’t it be great, if you could stop for a moment and take a vacation from the crisis mentality mode and  just concentrate on joy instead of sorrow, humor instead of drama, peace instead of chaos, love instead of hate.

There are far more satisfying ways to have fun than manufacturing crisis and drama.

In searching for peace and love, we find love and see a peaceful world.

Seek grace in your life, rejoice in the calm, celebrate beauty and harmony, allow your heart to hold the world in tender awe.

Craftsmanship

True craftsmanship understands that no one thing exists apart from another.

In the early years of the century, the Craftsman movement in architecture and design took those two disciplines to new heights of grace and symmetry.

Craftsman architects believed that a house existed not apart from but in conjunction with the total environment. So they aspired to perfection on both form and function. Working closely with wealth owners of the home to be, the craftsman architects was planner, interior designer, landscaper; he would often extend a subtle design theme from the structure of the house through the interior décor and into the yard and gardens to create an effect of harmony and balance in which even the minutest objects played and integral part. The mere placement of a lamp, for instance – its shape and the light and shadows it cast in a room- was important as the structural planning of the home itself.

As a result, when a craftsman home was sold and the new owner bought in new furnishings, the magnificence of the house seemed to mysteriously disappear, for without the splendid synthesis of object and space, structure and surroundings, it lost its soul.

Stepping back into today, it’s important to keep focused on connections. The world is a network where everything touches everything else and everyone touches everyone else. The connection can be physical, financial, emotional or spiritual, but it’s here.

We must learn to recognize how we are effecting lives around us. We must realize that the more we do our part to give to others, the more we give to our self, and the more we give to ourselves the more we can support others.

Can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone adopted the Craftsmanship attitude toward life? How can you bring more harmony and connectedness into your life?