Just Go Over It - Daily Dose of Wisdom

For each problem, look for the crux of the issue and find the most direct, simple and powerful solution. The solution that pulls the rug out from under the feet of the problem and leaves it no room to return.

This solution will likely also be the most outrageous. That’s okay. You’ll do it in a perfectly natural way, as though this is just the way things have always been done. Don’t bat an eyelid and hope no one else will.

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Naturally Outrageous

Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

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December 21, 2008

Response to Anonymous

The Rebbe Maharash had this saying: "The whole world says, if you can't go under, go over. I say, forget going under, just go over!"

The life coach is the whole world he is talking about--if you can't use a normal solution, try an outrageous one. The Rebbe Maharash was both a mystic and a leader who had to deal with a Czarist regime that was out to break the soul and body of the Jew, and he was a man who ran his life by outrageous solutions.

Like for example, today:

Problem: There are Jews who do not know it is Chanukah.
Solution: Light a 30 foot menorah in town square!

Tzvi Freeman

December 20, 2008

Just go over it

I don't understand the "spiritual/religious" or introspective aspect to this posting; it almost sounds like something a life coach would say to someone who is desperate. Can you be more specific?...Thanks.

Anonymous