Even if you don't follow football, you may have come across the news about Andy Gray and Richard Keys making (wrongly) critical and sexist comments about the female assistant referee, Sian Massey (left), during the Wolves vs Liverpool match at the weekend.
Sky Sports was not impressed with their employees and you can almost hear the MD, Barney Francis telling them to stop doing it, because it is "entirely inconsistent with our ethos" blah blah.
I suspect (although I may be wrong) that Sky are more upset about the effect on their viewers than they are by the nature of the comments and want the pair to stop behaving in that way. However when you listen to Alyson Rudd and Karen Brady who have both commented on it, they have a diferent take on it - that people should stop thinking in that way and therein lies a difference.
I have talked often this month about stopping doing things that are unhelpful for whatever reason, and that seems to have resonated with a number of you. We know it to be a useful practise even though it can be hard. How much harder though is it to stop thinking in a particular way?
If you were to examine your attitudes and ways of thinking, would you find thoughts that need to be altered, assumptions that need to be challenged, beliefs that need to change? Are you willing to even look, knowing how painful the results of that examination might be?
It takes boldness to challenge ourselves and maybe we need to empower a close advisor to do it for us. Only then can we look at altering our mindset and changing what we think.
How much more powerful is it however to change our thinking? Rather than merely treating the symptoms we are going to the root cause of a malaise. If we just behave in a different way, that is inherently contrary to our thoughts, we will develop internal stresses for ourselves and naturally revert back to something in line with our thinking.
To see ourselves as others see us is no longer enough. We want to be able to look inside ourselves and read our thoughts and be willing to change them if necessary. Its a big task but with a big effect.
Sky Sports was not impressed with their employees and you can almost hear the MD, Barney Francis telling them to stop doing it, because it is "entirely inconsistent with our ethos" blah blah.
I suspect (although I may be wrong) that Sky are more upset about the effect on their viewers than they are by the nature of the comments and want the pair to stop behaving in that way. However when you listen to Alyson Rudd and Karen Brady who have both commented on it, they have a diferent take on it - that people should stop thinking in that way and therein lies a difference.
I have talked often this month about stopping doing things that are unhelpful for whatever reason, and that seems to have resonated with a number of you. We know it to be a useful practise even though it can be hard. How much harder though is it to stop thinking in a particular way?
If you were to examine your attitudes and ways of thinking, would you find thoughts that need to be altered, assumptions that need to be challenged, beliefs that need to change? Are you willing to even look, knowing how painful the results of that examination might be?
It takes boldness to challenge ourselves and maybe we need to empower a close advisor to do it for us. Only then can we look at altering our mindset and changing what we think.
How much more powerful is it however to change our thinking? Rather than merely treating the symptoms we are going to the root cause of a malaise. If we just behave in a different way, that is inherently contrary to our thoughts, we will develop internal stresses for ourselves and naturally revert back to something in line with our thinking.
To see ourselves as others see us is no longer enough. We want to be able to look inside ourselves and read our thoughts and be willing to change them if necessary. Its a big task but with a big effect.
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