Flail

When I earned my Swimming Merit Badge, one requirement was to use clothes as a life preserver. I jumped into the pool wearing socks, shoes, jeans, belt, and a long sleeve shirt. Once your shirt and jeans are wet, you can knot the ends and fill them with your breath to become floatation devices.

The key is to remain calm and to be good at treading water. Someone panicking in the water kicks their legs and flails their arms. Treading water involves similar motions of legs and/or arms, but with a specific rhythm.

We can kick furiously and still drown, or we can calmly tread water and survive. The amount of effort isn’t as important as the type of effort.

Can I remain calm and breathe? Am I focused on the correct type and level of effort? Is my behavior moving my future closer or farther from where I want it to be?

Be curious, be kind, be whole, do good things.