Ascend
Fire
Welcome to another episode of the Ascend podcast with Curtis Vicry. So it's summer time in Idaho and surrounding states which means things are really dry and there's often wildfires whether they be man-caused, most of them are intentional, accidental, or just natural in regards to like lightning striking, right, and they're being a fire. And it always amazes me just often how hard fires are to contain. Like once it gets going, if the environment and the things are right, they can just go. And there's a lot of different things I think I could talk about that use like a fire as an analogy, but today it kind of has been registering my mind just about kind of how contagious or how easily they spread, right. And my question up to myself was what about me spreads to other people? Meaning is it my attitude? Is it a good attitude or is a bad attitude? Is it how I treat people? Do people want to be around me because of how I treat them or do people avoid me because of how I treat them? And I'd assume that most of you probably would like positive answers to those questions, but I think it's a good exercise to reflect and to try to be really honest with yourself about what do I see in my life, right, about how people are around me, maybe the things that they say, maybe things that they don't say. And then also the opposite, what are you showing in your life that you draw yourself towards, right, or that you allow yourself to be drawn towards? Are they the fires that you want to be drawn towards? Are they the things that are going to make you a better person? Are they the things that are actually hurting you? And then are you able to intervene and to either break those off or know how good they are and continue to try to keep that flame alive because you realize the goodness that it has in your life? And so I think those things are really important and it's okay to have a fire just like in general, the fires can be really good for nature, right, but also fires can get out of control too and also burn where they're not supposed to. And the question is for yourself is what are you experiencing? Is it what you want? This has been another episode of the Ascend podcast. Keep climbing and join me again next time.