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“Being half-assed doesn’t work, no matter which cheek’s left.”
-Werner Erhardt

I remember hearing this metaphor for the first time decades ago and thinking it was brilliant. Two people ignoring the tension between them; leaving some big secret unspoken…like trying to ignore an elephant in the room. It’s crowding them out, but they pretend it’s not there. All the while, it’s sucking the oxygen out of the room. An unsustainable recipe for relationships.

Well, there’s another elephant in the room, even when you’re alone. It’s your subconscious mind. It’s big and it’s undisciplined and it wants what it wants when it wants it. That part of you that wants to sit around watching TV, to smoke and drink and overeat and overlook commitments… it’s not going away. So, you’d better not neglect that elephant either. You’ve got to learn to communicate with that part of yourself, to include your subconscious resistance in the conversations about change, and to find a way to get it on board…or you’re doomed to stay stuck right where you are.

Word to the wise…No elephant likes to be ignored, and you’ll go further when your rider and your elephant are both going the same way!

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