Part 5
In this final blog on crushing and soaring I want to consider the chicken and the eagle. Put simply, when you have been conditioned to think like a chicken, you can’t fly like an eagle. You can get the degree and the office and the job like an (BIG person) eagle but if you think like a chicken (SMALL person) you will always mess it up and fall back down because you don’t have the attitude to complete tasks and see it through.
The chicken – eats off the ground and in the direction of their vision. They peck at sticks , corn and even their own waste. You know when you’re in a job that you’re eating your own waste you are in a bad place! You can’t eat stuff you should have released (let go) and still be able to fly on the level you need to fly. It’s a lifestyle that is consumed by looking down, eating down, flapping hard but not going anywhere. Chickens flap up a mess trying to fly but they can never leave the proximity of where they eat. They go up , they go down but they never go anywhere. Can you relate to that? They make all sorts of promises to themselves which they can never complete. We get used to operating with less, running in deficiency and it’s like our hearts having blocked arteries. Here’s a learning for us all - Don’t operate from a deficiency.
In order to change YOU, you have to be prepared to let it go.
You are looking down and eating down and flapping down but not going anywhere. Don’t you think that chickens don’t try to fly? They do but they can never quite leave the proximity of where they eat. They get up for a minute but they go down.
Take a moment to think about your life over the last few years. Every new year you say to yourself things are going to get better but you always go back to where you have been eating. When 70 % of your blood flow doesn’t reach your heart, your arteries clog with the small things. There is no sudden heart attack. We just get used to operating with less and the doctor will say you’ve got to get the little things out of your life so we can get your heart going again. Greatness gets shut up behind the little things. Do you want to embrace your destiny or flutter on the ground in your history? That’s the lifestyle of the chicken and I recommend you start looking up….
Eagles don’t eat waste, they don’t eat faeces, they FLY to the top of the mountain. As long as you eat what you should have released, you will never learn to fly at the level you should have learned to fly. You might have an eagle position but you might have a chicken mentality.
Eagles make love in the air. They spiral and embrace and fall and turn as they make love in the air. It was designed that way so that they would not inadvertently make love to a chicken. You have to get out of the arms of the chickens and fly in the sky with the eagles.
The reason that we are tied up like we are is that we are carrying stuff from where we came from. How we process our problems, our offenses and our hurts is tied up in the home or work environment from where we came from. We do stuff from the place we came from. If you want more in the 2nd half of your life, you are going to have to let the first half go. They may not have paid you but let it go, you may not have had the promotion but let it go.
I hope after reading this series you feel ready to take the promotion to the office of the eagle? You deserve it and all you have to do is be prepared to let stuff go that you are not fit to carry.
Thanks for reading
Cheers Andrew
