The Monsters Inside

Good afternoon everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend, and are off to a great start to the week.

I was driving my daughter to school this morning, listening to Jagger in the Mornings on 102.1 the Edge, when he made mention of a former Dallas Cowboy's running back, that had been arrested over the weekend for several charges. Joseph Randle has been in the news before, by way of stealing a few objects from a department store while an active player on the Dallas Cowboys. 

Now I don't want to make this whole post about one person and his mistakes. People make mistakes, all the time, everyday. We all do, I don't know much about the former player, I do know he had all the talent in the world, and for a minute we all thought he would be the starter and or move on to another team and become a league leader. I don't know his upbringing, and really prior to being drafted in 2013, I know nothing. So it's hard to judge someone, especially when their position in life is different from our own. 

I think though, that we can all agree that there was something inside of him, something that he never fully got over, even after all of his on the field accomplishments. This is something I can relate to, and to a certain point, we all can. 

Growing up, I continually had success on and off the field. School came fairly easy for me, graduated hs in the top 12% of my class, was all district my sophomore yr and on in baseball and went on to play in college. There was a hole though somewhere, and we can analyze it a million different ways. Product of divorce, and other situations, mixed with hanging out and playing ball with some of the elite in TX. We all experienced freedoms and luxuries because of our athletic abilities. Whatever it was or the combination of a few things, I had, to use the expression, "a wild hair", or an abundance of them. (haha)

Now fortunately through the Grace of God, loving parents and friends, I was somehow able to Forrest Gump myself through life and make it here with out getting locked up and or killed. 

It wasn't easy on me, and the whole way through I found a plethora of people to blame on the way. It's because of this, why I do this, or because they did this, why I got angry. I had an air of invincibility about me, that I just figured I made it through so much, I justified actions, and or reasoned with myself that everything will be ok. (If you subscribe to our site www.campcrusade.com; Ill site specifics, with you one on one.)

My kiddo was kind of my first real eye opener, I had never had anything that I had to be so fragile with and something that I cared about more than myself or any selfish thoughts. My wife Kim has been the ultimate showcase, for the monsters inside of me. You learn a lot when you live with someone, and really, since I was 13, she's the first woman I have lived with. Now don't get it twisted she has a toughness about her that will shrink the biggest person, but also she is a Ms Oklahoma Ms Congeniality award winner, and is very ladylike and refined.

Seeing my different temperaments thru her eyes over the last few years have really made me see the monsters that are inside of me. So I got to work, really identifying my triggers and understanding the monsters that I battle.

Things that are that close to you like kids and a wife are a little easier to take notice, the small little demons that turn into monsters. What about at work though? There's not really that hardcore personal connection that is easy to recognize. What monsters come out in us while at work? 

"He/She doesn't like me, that's why I haven't been promoted"; "I don't know why he/she is the director, I know more than they do, I have done more than they have here"; "he/she didn't listen to my idea, I'm not doing anything else the rest of the week."

Far too often we look for someone or something to blame. A justification for why something didn't happen FOR us, or a reason that something did happen TO us. More often than not, it's a monster inside us, that is holding us back. Not your boss, your company, etc. To quote another movie and something I have seen shared a lot, "the problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem"

I understand there are circumstances when it is an outside factor, but even in those situations, I bet if we really looked inside ourselves, and made sure we weren't allowing our monsters to head up the storm, we can make any problem way less of a problem. Even if the problem doesn't dwindle or go away, by checking ourselves, and our attitude and our demons inside, we will walk away from the situation feeling a million times better about it. 

Don't run from your monsters, and also don't run with them, but identify them, then plan an attack to subside them. When you do, you will be much happier, and that will show, and it will have a positive influence over someone else, and or the situation. 

I hope you all have a great rest of your Monday and week!

Best regards,

Hal Brock
CampCrusade.com

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