The Full Physical Circle - Think, Connect, Act

The Full Physical Circle - Think, Connect, Act

When we need to make changes to the world we should make them with emotion, with our social energy, to make sure that we are not causing conflict between what we are doing and what others need to change or have already changed. The question we need to ask is, what are our connections going to change and what have they already changed? Do we understand what their motivations are, or even more do we understand them enough to know how the world is changing them and how that influences their motivations? Do we understand how they are changing us? Do we understand their perspective, caring and community enough to know what direction their skills, talents and soul are going to drive change? Unless we understand our connections we risk just creating an emotional conflict between what we feel others should be changing and what they really are going to change or already have changed.

Cultivating Physical Strength through Interaction 

To build knowledge we need to put effort into finding information about how our interactions will change the world. We need to use thought to connect to those that will be impacted by our interactions and build understanding. Finally we need to use emotion to make changes based on the understanding we have built or choose not to take action that may destroy or redo the actions of a connection, giving us strength in community. By following the full circle, a simple change to the world strengthens every Physical aspect of who we are. We treat ourselves like we are part of the world being changed, we accept our connections are changed just like we are, then we work together to change the world like it changes us as much as we change it, completing the circle. By tying every aspect of who we are to the changes we make, we are accepting we live in a shared world, then changing it in a positive way for everyone, giving our lives a greater meaning than simply ourselves.

Interaction from Effort

The people that I am most connected to are the people that I went through the most struggles with. My interactions are defined by my efforts. When we put effort into being changed, we discover the ways our world is shared, changed by everything else. When we use this knowledge to make connections, we are building a shared connection on how we all change the world. Friends may come and go, but those that went through the worst with you, those connections are for a lifetime. Community is sharing emotion by sharing motivations that are discovered through effort. By filling everyone's motivations we are strengthening connections and there are few times that everyone's motivations line up like during struggles.

When I was the head housekeeper of a resort, every department was like a click. The office workers hung out with the office workers, the ranch people would hang out with the ranch people and the housekeepers with the housekeepers. The problem was that during the winter we were only booked on the weekends so I was the entire housekeeping department. My whole world was limited to bursts of connections during the three months of summer that would drift into the isolated months of winter. I didn’t know how to socialize, being homeschooled for most of my life, so I never left the resort to try and connect or reach out to others. My social life would follow the drifting of the sun throughout the seasons, winters of loneliness, springs of hope, summers of warmth and the withering of fall.

The maintenance team was a collection of former farmers and semi-retired military vets, they could swap out a golf cart motor in 10 minutes flat. They would hang out in the maintenance barn, painting their project cars, welding stairs together and swapping stories. There was a month in fall, when my staff had left, a group wanted to stay for an entire week, that meant when they left I would have 6 hours to clean every heated room that had over 100 beds put together. What would normally take me 5 days would have to be done in less than one. The office saw this coming and asked maintenance to help me for the day. I was uncomfortable using my manager voice with the grizzled veterans of the maintenance team, but we pulled together because these bookings paid all of our checks, we all shared the same motivation, same resolve. I was able to show the maintenance team the organization skills that got me the job, they were able to include me in their team for the day. 

After that, whenever we had off season bookings that were close together the maintenance team would always lend a hand. When one of the maintenance crew was putting in a concrete foundation for their garage, I went out to help before the cement hardened in the cement truck. I didn’t only become friends with the maintenance team, but their friends too.

When we share motivations with our connections we will also be aligning with the connections of our connections, giving us more opportunity to grow our social aspect by combining our community with theirs. When we cooperate to make changes to the world together we build more connections and strengthen the ones we have, our emotions not only fuel our interactions but also fuel our connections. 

Being part of the team made that place more of a part of who I was, it became more important for me to protect that community, that life we all shared. It took effort to find ways to connect, but that effort created community and interaction, changing myself, others and the world in a positive way. Having this support, made my life more stable, helped me do things I couldn’t have done myself.

Strength from Effort