Where is the balance between tenacity and surrender?
post by guest thinker: BROOKE MORGAN
In this, my 37th year, I am learning to let go. Though lessons tend to come and go and evolve as the seasons, this one has been hanging around for a good while now. In business, in my marriage, with our toddler, in my classroom, with my gray hair and crow’s feet – I am continually challenged by the notion of striving less and being more. More present, more engaged, more gracious, more imperfect, and less preoccupied with going and doing and rushing impatiently to the next thing on my to do list. I am finding that whenever I hold things or people too tightly in my own grasp, I am inevitably thrown into a vicious cycle of worry, stress, and anxiety. The illusion of control holds me hostage and keeps me from experiencing this glorious life as I know it.
But what really can we control anyway? The movement of the sun? Certainly not. The approval of friends and loved ones? Uh uh. The success of our business, our children, our health? I’m afraid not. So what is it all for? Why do I spend so much time striving, when the fruits of the Divine are gifts, not to be harnessed, but to be spontaneous, wild and free? A tough lesson indeed for someone who’s always believed that if you dream it, you can in fact DO it. And while there is merit in hard work and determination, perhaps there is equally so in turning down the noise of busyness and letting life simply happen as it will.
So I ask you to ponder with me…Where is the balance between tenacity and surrender? Between wanting to control and needing to let go? In other words, how do we find flow without getting pulled below the current?
About our guest: Brooke Morgan is an artist, educator, and visionary living in Nashville, TN. She is the founder of Nomad Collective, a curation of soulful pieces from around the globe with a business model that honors relationship, equity, and well-being.
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January 22, 2018 at 1:55 pmWhat is the purpose of tenacity? To become some “one” we have an image of for ourselves? Tenacity for forms or identities is endless and never leads to peace. Tenacity for the experience of the moment is presence. Be pure in tenacity and the boundaries of reason will show themselves.
Surrender is different from stopping or slowing or even compromise. Surrender is acceptance of what is. Whatever the moment is. Bring tenacity even to surrender.
Anonymous
January 23, 2018 at 6:46 pmSurrender to the things you cannot change(other people).
Be tenacious in pursuit of things you want to change(you).
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January 24, 2018 at 4:27 pmI love this question and have been thinking about it a lot the past few days. I am someone who grips tightly, trying to control time, trying to force my plan. I do think there is merit in tenacity, in holding fast to ambitions and aspirations. But there is also incredible wisdom in surrender.
I was at a barre3 class this morning and (serendipitously) the instructor called on us to bring forth a simultaneous ease and effort. It was possible. I could hold on and let go at the same time in my body. I think we can do the same thing in our spirits. The key, I think, to balancing tenacity and surrender is remembering that we can’t and don’t do anything alone.
Anonymous
January 24, 2018 at 8:19 pmFaith helps me find that balance…I feel like I’m in charge of dreaming it and doing it (whatever the it happens to be) and then I get to let go and watch what happens!
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January 25, 2018 at 3:17 amWe sponsored a speaker at work today who has done incredible justice work in Haiti. Kent Annan, who recently wrote Slow Kingdom Coming. I was struck by his passion and humility. Characteristics that align with tenacity and surrender. He talked about how difficult justice work can be and how he has learned to trust God and those around him, those he is working in solidarity with to make a difference. I see the parallels with many careers, not just those in “helping professions.” Tenacity is the engine that keeps us fired up—Surrender keeps us grounded, listening to the needs of those around us. Where is the balance? I imagine it differs for all of us—but when it is out of whack for me it looks like burnout or boredom.
Anonymous
January 26, 2018 at 3:32 amThanks for posting this. I haven’t written in yet but this really struck me as I’m struggling with my own need for control and having some minor anxiety because of it. Thanks to my husband and some good friends who’ve reminded me of my own, vastly different perspectives from some negative people around me, I am trying to let go. It’s very hard. But when I do, I always feel that it was absolutely the right action, thought, step.
Anonymous
January 26, 2018 at 5:31 pmThis reminds me so much of the serenity prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
My surrender is in accepting what I can’t change, which is so much I realize and I am constantly learning about letting go of the need to control. Every time I accept that I can only control myself and my actions, I feel a sense of relief and peace.
The tenacity part is about sticking with the things I can change and being courageous and fearless even if it’s uncomfortable. It all relates back to settling into the present moment and being ok with whatever is happening without trying to change or control it.
Anonymous
June 19, 2019 at 5:35 amI am pondering this too. Like you I am learning to let go, to be more and do less. Moving away from a place of codependency in relationships and in trying to control them so that I can maintain my own equilibrium and comfort levels. But I also find myself wondering on boundaries and how we know what a healthy boundary is (essentially it is still an attempt to control and find structure and a form of resistance) and when we should just let go and be ok with what is, finding the courage not to hold such firm boundaries with others and opening more to Source. I think that ultimately it comes down always to a personal choice. Are we ready to let that boundary go and see what emerges? If the answer is yes then we can let the boundary go, if no then we have the right to hold it for ourselves, what ever it is, honouring that need in the moment.
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