I decide to paint my garage door pink. Yes, pink.
\nAfter thinking about it for a (very short!) time I decide not to.<\/p>\n
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An apparently simple and obvious illustration. <\/p>\n They were the followers and I followed them. So I am following the followers!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An experimenter placed centipedes in a circle and they followed each other and starved. Plenty of food was in the center<\/strong> of the circle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n How many things do you really want to do but are holding yourself back because of what you think others<\/strong> would think about your actions. <\/p>\n I now have the ceiling<\/strong> of my garage painted Jamaican Hot Pink. <\/p>\n What are you holding back from doing because of your decision to follow followers?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now is the time to start changing that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ————————–<\/p>\n These are related:<\/strong><\/p>\n 4<\/strong> Common Courtesy<\/a> – 6<\/strong> Feed Yourself<\/a> – 22<\/strong> Attitude<\/a> – 29<\/strong> Who\u2019s in Charge?<\/a> – 31<\/strong> Being at-Cause<\/a><\/p>\n 48<\/strong> Saying No<\/a> – 55<\/strong> Oxygen<\/a> – 59<\/strong> Hesitation<\/a> – 67<\/strong> Personal Nag<\/a> – 100<\/strong> Ransom Notes<\/a> – 102<\/strong> Response-ability<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I decide to paint my garage door pink. Yes, pink. After thinking about it for a (very short!) time I decide not to. An apparently simple and obvious illustration. Let’s look at it in other terms. I decide (leadership \/taking the lead \/initiating etc.) to do something. Then I think about what ‘the neighbors’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fear","7":"category-leadership","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLet’s look at it in other terms.
\nI decide (leadership \/taking the lead \/initiating etc.) to do something.
\nThen I think about what ‘the neighbors’ will say.
\nWhatever they say comes as a result<\/em> (it would follow<\/span> whatever I did).
\nThen I decide — based on their<\/strong> likely opinion — not to do it.<\/p>\n
\nHopefully you are not at the point of starving in that particular thing \/subject. Yet.<\/p>\n
\nYes I know, but it is<\/span> a start! Remember the THIN edge of the Wedge is how to get things done (<\/strong><\/strong># 23<\/a>)<\/p>\n