To start wrapping up

This blog post hopes to inspire a dialog with the heads of households about what kind of modeling they are doing for their dependents. If the owned belief is that one is just coal, then, there is no incentive to do the hard work during good and bad times to become a diamond. While being coal is not a bad thing in and of itself, should one aspire to be more, the work has to get done.

In a post on another blog (through1lens) penned by the author of this blog, the analogy is torn apart even further. The choice is singular with plural impacts. Each member of the home has to want to become a diamond or be coal. The collective has to then work out how to get to that overall conclusion of the journey/goal.

One thing is very constant, change. There will always be challenges and headwinds. How one opts to address them will eventually testify to the character that is within.

Last Diamond Feature

The change from coal to diamond requires a change in the internal order of the carbon inside the coal. It’s not about getting new carbon (referring to the natural process of diamond formation). It’s about changing the arrangement of the internal carbon structure.

The same is true for how families improves. They have to change their internal dialog. They have to change their internal communication style and skills. They have to change their internal sense of pride, respect, gratitude, attitude, and altitude.

There has to be great internal work to order the foundation so that a great house can be build: a great home created. That takes time, choices, repeated actions, dedicated practice, and lots of patience. Especially when weathering challenges before the full house is built to protect the occupants.

Once the work is done, the maintenance is not as tough. Diamonds are inherently very strong. They can withstand immense pressure and assaults because of the structure within. Diamonds were created in extreme conditions so that normal challenges are easy for diamonds to endure.

The work of maintaining is not hard. However, if the family is coal built, the work of upkeep is extensive. No time to go into the details of how hard it is to be safe in coal mining operations, just Google it, it’s a lot of constant vigilance and work. A real grind.

It starts with one small change

What small change will you start to work on in your personal life? What small change will you do to add value to your home? What small change can you repeat over and over so it becomes a bigger change to leverage in building up the family you’re entrusted with?

Removing a mountain all at once is nearly impossible with current technology. Chipping away daily with the right tools means one day, the mountain is gone. Same as the building up of a diamond. It takes steady small changes to align the carbon structure into the lattice needed to become a diamond.

Commit today to start the dialog, start the new habit, the new plan, the new direction to improve your home.