Email: What Green Light ACTION can you take now, to change a Red Light situation?
“Future people will wonder why we endured so many evils we had the power to change.” Ashleigh Brilliant, Pot Shots. Let us be the people who take action to change one of these situations NOW.
What is one Red Light condition, location, person or group in need, etc. that you care deeply about? What is one Green Light action you can take – this week – that will impact that? This can be anything – talking to someone to spread awareness, writing a letter to the editor, making a phone call or setting up a get-together to choose a course of action. When we light a candle for a good cause, the flame is Green.
Tripping out!
In a conversation I overheard, an older woman telling her daughter, “I’m going on my last big trip.” “Oh, you’ve been saying that for 10 years now – and look how many big trips you’ve taken!” her daughter said.
The older woman added an unnecessary element of sadness and finality that diminished the joys of anticipation that she could have been experiencing instead. She Redded on herself a bit. What if she changed just one word in her statement?
“I’m going on my last big trip.”
“I’m going on my next big trip.”
She could have Greened her viewpoint – and added to her own delight, as well as that of the other person.
In the next few days, keep your ears open for any similar thinking – opportunities to Green up your NEXT thought – and viewpoint.
How do you interpret the weather forecast? Redly or Greenly?
“We’re supposed to get rain all week.” This weather report from a friend could make one think/feel/expect rain all week. The mind interprets “all week” as 24 hours a day, for 7 days. The reality is, it’s extraordinarily rare to have a week of constant rain anywhere on the planet. In addition, many times when we say it rained all day, it really only rained 20 minutes – and in only one area nearby. Likely, the sun even broke through – at least once, at least for a moment or three.
What we say has a lot to do with what we experience. We decide if we “experience” our day as mostly cloudy with sun breaks or mostly sunny with showers. (By the way, it’s the morning after the previous evening’s declaration of a week of rain. Since daybreak, it’s been dry – and sunny for several hours.) At least in our viewpoint, we can always live on the sunny side of the street. (That’s where the Green Light signals are!)
