Several years ago Thom and I attended a workshop where the speaker asked us the question, “How open-minded are you about closed- minded people?”  It was asked in the context that here we all were, thinking we had the right and perfect solution to the world’s problems, and yet this simple question asked us, “so what makes you think you are so smart/spiritual/aware that you have the right/ true/correct answer to whatever is going on?”  Huh?

SMART living requires that we are to take full responsibility for our lives if we want to live happy, and rewarding lives.  But in order to be fully responsible for what’s going on, then we have to first be aware, and then second, realize that even when we think we know, there can always be a different or bigger perspective that we are clueless about.  Even when we try to be as opened-minded as possible, we always have a blind spot here and there.  And often, the more we fight something the more it “backfires.” [Read more…]