This content was created by Kim Gaskill. This content was uploaded by Kim Gaskill. This is a YouTube video titled "043 zeroControl Gilbertrehab" (Daily Spark) published April 30, 2019. It is a short monologue by Kim Gaskill, speaking from Gilbert, Arizona about experiencing loss of control after an injury, accepting dependence on others, and applying that acceptance to gain perspective and improve business approaches. The clip is a personal/reflective talk rather than a multi‑speaker conversation.
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Good morning from Gilbert, Arizona. I'm Kim Gaskill and this is the Daily Spark. Have you ever had one of those moments where you realize you have absolutely no control over what's going on? I mean, zero. You are totally dependent on on someone or something else to take care of something or get through a moment. Yesterday I had that realization. Y'all know I got injured about a week ago. I'm totally incapacitated, totally dependent on someone else moving me around, doing things for me. And I realized yesterday I have zero control. I'm totally dependent on someone else taking care of certain things for me, and that's not an easy thing for me. That's not an easy thing for most people, and I'm sure that you've had those situations. You don't have to be incapacitated but in your business even, where you just feel like everything's going on, happening around you, you have absolutely zero control over. And, and I realized I was upset at that moment, but then after I got through it, I realized it's okay. The first thing you need to do is accept the fact that you have no control, because I was fighting it and that made it worse. Once you accept the fact that you have no control and you acknowledge it's okay for this moment in time, it's okay. Then you can look at it differently. You can move past it. You can see the situation a little differently than you're looking at it. From familiar ground. We look at things familiar to us, things common that we've done repetitively over and over, and including in our business. And then when something happens where we just get totally frustrated because we have no control, we think things are falling apart or they're a mess, or we're trying to push against it or change it. And sometimes it's better to just acknowledge that it's okay. Let that outside control move you in a direction you need to move, and then observe from the outside how they're doing it, because sometimes looking at it differently from how we are familiar with things gives us a different perspective, gives us a different outlook on how maybe we could change something next time, how maybe we could add something better to a problem or a solution in our business next time. So sometimes it's okay to not have control, observe what's going on, and tweak things. See you again tomorrow for another Daily Spark.
