your daily rock : willingness

May 8, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

“That word is ‘willing.’ It’s an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It’s like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.” -Stephen Kendrick

Willingness is an opening up, isn’t it? It is arms flung open, even if quietly, softly, gently.

Willingness is not loud or needy. Willingness doesn’t insist upon itself or yell or need to be acknowledged. Then it’s not willingness, but performance. Instead, it gracefully bends toward the sun.

Let this sweet spirit of willingness–to hear someone out, to be open to other options, to let someone else choose, to become a beginner again–permeate your conversations today.

Bend.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.