Have you ever had one of those days where your game plan is set and you are feeling good, ready to tackle your to-do list, dominate your domain, whatever that may be? I think we’ve all been there, standing at the starting line of our days looking across our vast expanse of opportunity and smiling.
Of course, that is when the curve ball flies at you from a neighboring field and conveniently hits the reset button, throwing your calendar and your tasks into chaos. Maybe for you it looks like an unforeseen test that needs to be run or some code that is just not playing nice. Maybe it is a last-minute call to rearrange a calendar that was already packed to the brim. Heck, maybe it was a call from school notifying you of a lice outbreak and little Timmy’s immediate need for Nix.
It is in moments like these that I find myself reminded of a saying I heard one time: Semper Gumby. Wait, huh? Yep, I’m talking that green guy who hung out with the orange horse and was constantly outsmarting the blockheads trying to trip him up. They never caught him, no matter the circumstance they tried to back him into. What was his key to success?
Flexibility. It’s the key to getting through any circumstance with a smile on your face. Semper Gumby: Always Flexible. It may go against our natural grain and the desire to hold on with all we’ve got, but the ability to adapt and adjust on the fly is what keeps us in the race. It’s rigid resistance that lends itself to injury in physical collisions, and the same is true of our attitude. There is always a solution; sometimes you just have to bend a little to find it.
