This video. This is deep for me.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this, because I know so many humans who cannot do what this monkey just did.
Have you ever had a friend or family member who doesn't think they can achieve what you KNOW they can achieve? They doubt themselves constantly and just cannot see what you can in the context of their ability... and what do you do? Do you just agree with them? Do you just let them back up and not try?
I see it all the time. I see a person walking their new puppy and the new puppy starts pulling back. Rather than having the expectation that the puppy will figure it out and continuing to go forward as a leader, the people will stop! They stop and turn around and let the puppy back up or sit down... what message are you sending??? Think about what the puppy sees... they get scared or tired and start to balk, and the human reinforces their doubt then gives them power over the situation by looking to THEM to see what should happen next. So now who is the leader? The insecure one with doubts about their own potential.
Isn't this how life is with us, to a certain extent? I think this is exactly how God handles us when it comes time for us to grow or face a fear. Time after time we find ourselves facing scenarios that simply ask us to be more, face an old wound, or try something new. And don't we find ourselves doing this out of our own discipline? Urging ourselves to try loving again even when it hurt the last time, to try and work out at 5am even when it sucks, or to go into a new social situation regardless of how out of place we feel?
So be like the monkey. Keep asking. Ask again and again for them to try. Just keep telling them (or you, situation depending) "You can do it." Your tool of asking is, in this situation, the leash.
Just. Keep. Asking.
Use that pressure on the leash to communicate, "you can do it" with a tug. That tug says when you come forward, pressure comes off... when you back up, pressure increases. Come Forward. Keep Trying. Learn from the monkey.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this, because I know so many humans who cannot do what this monkey just did.
Have you ever had a friend or family member who doesn't think they can achieve what you KNOW they can achieve? They doubt themselves constantly and just cannot see what you can in the context of their ability... and what do you do? Do you just agree with them? Do you just let them back up and not try?
I see it all the time. I see a person walking their new puppy and the new puppy starts pulling back. Rather than having the expectation that the puppy will figure it out and continuing to go forward as a leader, the people will stop! They stop and turn around and let the puppy back up or sit down... what message are you sending??? Think about what the puppy sees... they get scared or tired and start to balk, and the human reinforces their doubt then gives them power over the situation by looking to THEM to see what should happen next. So now who is the leader? The insecure one with doubts about their own potential.
Isn't this how life is with us, to a certain extent? I think this is exactly how God handles us when it comes time for us to grow or face a fear. Time after time we find ourselves facing scenarios that simply ask us to be more, face an old wound, or try something new. And don't we find ourselves doing this out of our own discipline? Urging ourselves to try loving again even when it hurt the last time, to try and work out at 5am even when it sucks, or to go into a new social situation regardless of how out of place we feel?
So be like the monkey. Keep asking. Ask again and again for them to try. Just keep telling them (or you, situation depending) "You can do it." Your tool of asking is, in this situation, the leash.
Just. Keep. Asking.
Use that pressure on the leash to communicate, "you can do it" with a tug. That tug says when you come forward, pressure comes off... when you back up, pressure increases. Come Forward. Keep Trying. Learn from the monkey.
