life is holistic

Everything totally ties to everything else! It can be so cool to realize that every new skill can be applied to everything else one does. The analogy of looking up at a crashing wave but knowing you have the skills to paddle through it so helped me the other day when I "looked" up at a crashing wave of work about to fall on my head, knowing that I'd be able to cope with it with the skills I've learned earlier. Then there are all the aikido analogies that have _really_ helped me in management (no, I have not actually thrown anyone while at the office). The fact that, in aikido, if you push someone, they automatically push back, thus making things a contest, has exact parallels in dealing with people who try to push someone into a way of thinking only to find that, since it's a push and not a joint redirection of energy, the other person will resist automatically.

That was my revelation of the week last week. It made me smile.