When You Injure Yourself

A reality slap.

Today, I hurt my back.
It’s true; 
the sick person only wants 
one thing…

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Reflection

We are brutally reminded of our fragility and mortality in times like these.

We realise we have limits and can’t always push ourselves too hard without some form of consequence.

We now recognise that health is the most important thing, not false idols like money, power, or fame. Without health, it can be hard to enjoy the simplest of things.

And if that wasn’t enough, we punish ourselves internally as we sink into shame for neglecting all the ways we knew we could have prevented our pitfall.

How can I better protect my health?

Or how can I make myself strong?

Pair with an insight from Stephen R. Covey that always stuck with me:

“Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm:

The more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are. But as the story shows, true effectiveness is a function of two things:

What is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset or capacity to produce (the goose).

If you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglects the goose, you will soon be without the asset that produces golden eggs.

On the other hand, if you only take care of the goose with no aim toward the golden eggs, you soon won’t have the wherewithal to feed yourself or the goose.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Protect the goose that lays the golden eggs.

The goose is you, my friend!

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