The sky was leaden with clouds today, Epiphany 2025, but as the rain held off I went out for a walk with the intention of doing a 90 second dead-hang in a park, but when I got there some gink was hogging the "sky ladder" so I kept going until I got to my favourite secluded spot by the sea.
Earlier in the morning I'd read Robert Greene's "Daily Law" for 6th January. Today's "law" is "Change":
"... do not hold on to past ways of doing things, because that will ensure you will fall behind and suffer for it. You are flexible and always looking to adapt. If change is forced upon you, you must resist the temptation to overreact or feel sorry for yourself. ... you don’t want to abandon the skills and experience you have gained, but to find a new way to apply them. Your eye is on the future, not the past. Often such creative readjustments lead to a superior path for us—we are shaken out of our complacency and forced to reassess where we are headed."
Robert Greene, The Daily Laws, 6th January
This was on my mind as I sat on the stone steps looking at the cloud covered seascape, a place that I have often visited on bright sunny days...
So I made this #short video! As I was making it, the sun suddenly attempted to break through the cloud cover, nicely illustrating the theme of "change".
https://youtube.com/shorts/3KZ40reUmSg?si=pi6mB6CPpZBmb0QV
When I strolled back, the gink had gone and I tried a couple of times to dead-hang for 90 seconds, but dropped off the bar after a minute each time. This is the first time I've tried dead-hanging in about ten months and so I need to work my way up to 90 seconds, with a stretch (literally?) goal of two minutes...
Cheers!
David Hurley
#InspiredFocus
