Let's Get Real
Alex Papworth
Supporting business analysts to thrive in unpredictable times through trusting themselves, leading to unimagined possibilities
Or how what's easy is really hard. And what ease really is
Some poetic reflections on living a working life with integrity sparked by the recent Greg Wallace story.
It's easier to accept what is...
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It's easier to stay in the corporate world as a contractor or employee - you get financial security after all (until you don't)
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It's easier to keep quiet when the bad behaviour is overlooked or, worse still, the perpetrator is protected
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It's easier to say 'tsk tsk' when it's far enough away from you that you couldn't have done anything anyway
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It's easier to watch the media performance with Greg Wallace, Mohammed Al Fayed and many more before get justice in a public way
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It’s easier to judge individuals than invest the time (that is in short supply) to understand why men become like this; why they gain power and why they are protected
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It’s harder…
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It’s harder to face the fact that this public performance allows people to vent and express their rage whilst 99% of cases without public exposure will not be addressed
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It’s harder to recognize that it is systemic and we will spend the rest of our lives rooting out the ‘bad’ guys
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It’s harder to accept that bad treatment is a feature and not a bug of workplace culture which is a reflection of the modern Western economic system where profit is the only goal and all other values fall away very readily when under pressure
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It’s harder to accept that people aren’t born bad and that justice will never stop this from happening
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It’s harder to let of the simplistic (and yet psychologically rewarding) victim/persecutor/rescuer framing when it is so deeply rooted in our culture
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It’s harder to accept our complicity when this is simply the world we live in
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It’s harder to dig deeper to understand the true root cause, the ancient wound, the separation from nature; separation from self
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It’s easier to ?live a full life when…
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It’s easier to let nature take its course and abandon the pretence you were in control in the first place
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It’s easier to understand and honour your own nature
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It’s easier to love who you are whilst understanding that you were never going to fit into a machine
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It’s easier to act with integrity when you understand it is about individual wholeness NOT fighting the perpetrators
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It’s easier to be a body-mind not just a mind and use this wisdom to guide you
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It’s easier to return to the corporate world with both this new-found wisdom and to live a full life without compromise
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It’s easier if you remember you weren’t in control anyway and nature always has the answer
There is no judgement intended here. Just some reflections for my own entertainment which I hope is of use to some.
And you can see me reading this on my substack - Grow Your Own Guru.
I've added this as an article so more people will be able to read. LinkedIn does not like posts which link to Substack! I understand the whole walled garden thing but nature doesn't have walled gardens for a reason - it will stop ecosystems thriving!