We’re all looking for our sweet spot. My best metaphor for that miraculous place is when my wife’s brother Edward was shore fishing many years ago and suddenly began pulling fish in as fast as he could caste his line out. He didn’t even need bait! And no one up and down the beach was catching anything. You can’t look for your sweet spot. Your sweet spot has to find you.
Jimmy Hargrave found his sweet spot yesterday. He is building a sign business from my backyard shop, and suddenly orders for signs came pouring into the door of his new business. This was the sweet spot he had been looking for. But maybe sweet spots just come when you are ready. Jimmy had come to me ten years ago for help in building his sign business, but it never took off as he personal problems unseated his focus and he left town to “kill his evil twin brother,” he said when he came back. So maybe we are the obstacle that keeps us from our sweet spot.
There are sweet spots that happen like miracles, Edward’s fishing hole, and there are sweet spots that are more lasting and require a little work. I have found in my search for the sweet spot in my life that it comes when you allow life to be sweet no matter where you are. Then where can you go that you are not in your sweet spot. If the fish bite or if the fish don’t, life is still sweet. That’s a win/win spot to be in.
One allows life to be sweet but accepting the unsweetened life without judgment or grievance. Forgiveness, that is the sweetning one has to add to life. “Life, this very present moment that you are, I forgive you for not being what I expect you to be. I just accept you as your are.” Do that and life will love you for it.
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This post was written by ed on February 17, 2009
