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The Iceberg Challenge - Mid-Month Update!

Posted on: January 19, 2010 by Diane No Comments

from Diane’s desk…

Here’s an update on the Iceberg Challenge - the January challenge, focusing on a specific gnarly behavior and/or belief to learn about yourself, about God, about others…

Read about this month’s challenge here.

My observations mid-month…

• The one sorta positive thing I can report so far…when I look for more in a person, I sometimes find it.

But the negative learnings certainly are more abundant (sad to say!)…

• It’s easy to not judge another person when you like the other person. When I don’t like someone, I move quickly to assumptions about the rot that is under the surface without ever really finding out. A very dishearterning observation.
• It’s easier to be more tolerant, more forgiving, less judgemental of someone  when I am not jealous of their role, their looks, their status, their body, their…whatever. I am appalled at how much Envy (a capital E) I carry around. Just appalled. I can’t comment anymore than that…I’m still in recovery mode!
• It humbles me to know how shallow I can be…let me correct that…it humiliates me to know how shallow I am!
• It crushes me to know that others are doing the same thing to me as I am doing to them.

And that’s just after two weeks of focusing on this!! But I know it will get better - there is hope! And…I’ll report on that at the end of the month!

How about you? Anyone have the guts to take on this challenge? Anyone have the guts to share what they are learning?