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"Why do you
look at the speck of sawdust in your
brother's eye and pay no attention to the
plank in your own eye? How can you say to
your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of
your eye,' when all the time there is a
plank in your own eye?" – Matthew 7:3-4
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As an "inspirational" author, I read
roughly 60 books per year, listen to dozens of audios, and attend seminars every few weeks. While
working on my second book, a thought struck me. In my research
and writing, I have gleaned a tremendous amount of wisdom for
the benefit of my readers. Why, then, am I still struggling to
apply this wisdom in my own life?
Last month I went to a training session
looking for answers. What I discovered astonished me. In The Road
Less Traveled, Scott Peck says, "...we must accept
responsibility for a problem before we can solve it," and later
says, "The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person
with a character disorder not enough." I learned (the hard way)
that I had adopted a character disorder at a very young age.
When I was five years old, I nearly lost
my life due to kidney problems. One of the few vivid
memories of my childhood is lying on an operating table,
terrified, weak and totally vulnerable. At some point I
unconsciously vowed never to feel that way again. I started to
deny my own vulnerability, and to despise that characteristic in
others. I became adept at identifying all of my weaknesses in
others, while failing to see any of them in myself.
"C'mon, slowpoke. Can't you go any faster?!" |
Peck says, "...the lazy part of
the self...is unscrupulous and specializes in treacherous
disguise. It cloaks its own laziness in all manner of
rationalizations." Until I took a good honest look at my
life, with the help of some excellent trainers and friends, I
had no idea how flawed my beliefs and behavior had become.
Ask yourself...
- Am I quicker to spot
faults in others than I am in myself?
- Do I hold a different
set of standards for myself than for others?
- How do these differing
standards keep me from becoming the person I was meant
to be?
From now on, I commit to
working on my planks before looking for someone else's specks.
How about you?
Keep running for your prize,
Larry Hehn
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