Saw this quote of encouragement from Tamika D Mallory in the middle of so many Palestinian posts of developing news and devastation. It was very good to receive this calm reassurance for the moment. Thus, it is the inspiration for today's Monday Motivation for you.
If you have been on Tin Shingle's Instagram lately, you can see where we stand. Locally, because national and most local media is not reporting on much of anything having to do with Palestine, the facts which have all been recorded on video, from Palestinian children mourning their parents or siblings lost, to Israeli IDF military boasting about how many apartment buildings they can blow up in how many seconds, Tin Shingle's sister media company, A Little Beacon Blog, has been at the center of the Hudson Valley when it comes to producing this news coverage, which has been part of the inspiration pulling people out of their comfort zones and into the streets to protest, and speak at City Council meetings to get local ceasefire resolutions passed.
"When you operate in your gift..." was the part of the quote that called out the most. Less being the lead of the table - if you're even at a table! Some of you may work from the floor or standing over a client or in the isles of a store. Or you may be popping out of a moonroof!
Operating in your gift is a tapped in way to be. When operating from your gift, you are being at your most honest self with yourself. This can leave you quite grounded. Which is necessary for moving forward to do big things, or even the every day things to keep your business growing and surviving.
Maybe you had a soaring Sunday.
Maybe you had a sinking Sunday, where the chilling grip of failure creeped around your bones as the clocked ticked to the new week.
Maybe the clock ticking to the new week filled you with excitement, as it did us yesterday.
Maybe you experienced both soaring and sinking feelings at the same time.
Tamika's post reminds us to close our eyes, remember our gifts, and tap in down there. From there, we can rise up, reach out, and do what we need to do.
Before posting this quote, I checked with Tamika's Instagram posts to make sure she was posting about Palestine. That she wasn't silent on the issue. She has not been silent, and recently re-posted these sentiments of Linda Sarsour.
Pictured here is Tin Shingle's owner Katie standing out the top of her car waving the Palestinian flag while wearing the keffiyeh knotted in a traditional style for the head. As the creator and lead blogger for A Little Beacon Blog, she’s been Instagramming a lot, educating the local community. Posts on Palestine are right now the most popular and waited for over there.
While she had been imagining herself standing out of the car, that was just an image. Actually getting up out of the car was much different. Much more intimidating. Until one of her acquaintances approached her open window to tell her to "get this bomb out of the way!"
Being told her car is a bomb - which was an Islamaracist thing to say - was enough to pop her out the top of the moonroof. And there she remained for the rest of the parade. To many thumbs up of support, many cheers of "Yay!!," several personal DMs saying this was their favorite part of the parade, one "White Power Hamas!", one "Ireland Supports Israel!" which is sorely not true, and most recently, she was sent an anonymous pink post-it note to her home, telling her to "stick to forum" to which she responded in a video.
Operate from your gift.
You may discover new things that make it easier to do hard things.