Acceptance and detachment (and the call I still think about)

I just posted a public video on this concept. In here I want to go one layer deeper.

The reason I know this work is real is because I lived on the wrong side of it for years. I had calls I couldn't put down. Not because they were the worst calls I ever ran, but because I couldn't stop arguing with how they ended. I kept running them back. What I could have done differently. What I should have seen sooner. What would have changed the outcome.

None of that changed the call. All of it changed me.

Acceptance didn't come to me because I read about it in a book. It came because I got tired of paying the cost of resistance. My family paid it. My health paid it.

Detachment came the same way. Not from a mindset trick. From finally understanding that the outcomes I was still fighting for were never mine to control in the first place.

If you're carrying a call like that right now, I want to ask you something in here that I wouldn't ask on the public post.

What's the story you're still telling yourself about that call? Not the facts of what happened. The story. What you should have done. What kind of person it makes you. What it means about the job.

That story is the resistance. And it's the thing you can actually work with.

Drop a comment if you're willing. Even just one line. No one is judging in here.

Kerry

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Acceptance and detachment (and the call I still think about)