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What Grievances Are Holding You, Your Family, Your Practice & Your Clients Back?

Simon Reilly

You cannot hold a grievance and know yourself.

To hold a grievance is to forget who you are and to let your ego (amygdala, emotional, lizard, or limbic brain) rule and consume you in the process.

You know the old expression, when there is a finger pointing out there are three pointing back.

Grievances split your consciousness distracting you with the ego’s ceaseless grievances that distract you from your only function which is to be at peace.

From peace all grievances disintegrate and solutions shine through.

How do you easily get rid of grievances?

  1. Be still
  2. Think of your mind as a circle surrounded by heavy dark clouds and you cannot see the light of day because these heavy dark clouds are made up of grievances that can include, a belief that you have too much to do, a belief that someone is doing something to you for which you have no control over, a belief that something is doing something to you for which you have no control over. From where you are standing, these beliefs seem to be the only reality that you can see, dark clouds.
  3. Be determined to go past the clouds.
  4. Reach out and touch the clouds, imagine walking through the clouds that touch your forehead and your cheeks as you walk through them now, without even thinking about the content because they are just meaningless clouds.
  5. Given that you found stillness in step one in advance of walking through the clouds, and now that you are on the other side of the clouds, in the light of day you will feel uplifted, at peace and above the clouds.
  6. All you have to do is to remember to remember that the light of day will lift you above all grievances.

It’s Saturday, October 26th, 2013, and I’m on a flight from Winnipeg to Toronto via Thunder Bay on my way to attend the 2013 Advocis Regulatory Affairs Symposium — “At the Breaking Point: Advisors, Advice and Professionalization” — tackling some of the key issues currently in play, including:

  • Fees and Advisor Compensation
  • A “Best Interests” Standards of Care
  • Practice Pitfalls
  • Raising the Bar: Advocis’ Professional Model