Hello and welcome

Yes hello and welcome to the Be In It blog experience. A space of stories, reflections and insights into the highly variable human experience. 

Prepare, as you read, to be shown the true nature of life, and then prepare to have that truth modified immediately as additional information, experience and perspective arises. 



It seems clear that the conscious journey enjoyed by all people can include both spectacular disaster and startling joy, as well as a collection of meandering regular events to serve as a pretty solid backdrop. 

Into this journey humans travel, either blindly or searchingly aware, sometimes hurtling ahead wildly and sometimes stoically plodding. Some people experience fear and trepidation during their trip through life while others blaze with confidence and a bullet proof spirit. Some individuals follow a plan, others ricochet freely against the boundaries of the impossible and probable.

Through it all there is learning, experience, reflection and understanding. This is the adventure of life, and what a wonderful collection of unique, excruciating and uplifting events it is. 

Try this out for a collection of potentially debatable life truths:

• Challenge is opportunity
• Perspective directly contributes to reality
• Your personal experience is completely unique
• The task of life may be to simple be in it 

If as you read those statements a corner of your mind enlivens, or in a quiet moment latter something stirs and wriggles, then stay tuned. 



To begin with, challenge:

Through personal pursuit, or through the random and exuberant nature of the world each person encounters challenge. It seems that the vast majority of people could quickly and confidently answer the question ‘what are your challenges today?’ 

Challenges occur in a broad range of circumstances and include various characteristics.  

• A challenge presents itself - an event or an obstacle, a resisting force or a moment of drastic change 
• A challenge is variable - explosive or constrictive, significant or routine, unique or chokingly familiar 
• A challenge demands attention - internally or externally generated, grotesque or high-minded, seemingly pointless or necessary 
• A challenge is influenced by perspective - grand or mundane, equitable or unfair, malicious or dispassionate

When asked ‘what are your challenges today?’ an image is conjured, possibly echoed in the labels provided above. 
It could be an event, unique in nature, necessary for progression and dispassionate to the individual. 
Perhaps a moment of change, explosive and decisive coming from inside and grand in scope and impact. 
Maybe an obstacle, familiar and well worn that by now seems mundane and nearly pointless.

An important element of life is to be exposed to challenge - and then strive to succeed, to avoid, or to survive. For every person these situations are different. 

In all circumstance and through all phases of our personal journey, challenges pulsate in our awareness. Varied in as many ways as life itself is varied, each challenge comes as a unique event, even when a repetition of a previous challenge. 

People reach to understand and negotiate in the presence of presented, variable, attention demanding challenges. A first step to engaging with any challenge is description.  

If you can create a moment of relative peace, then consider your challenges today. What are they? How where they created? How do you feel about them? Have you been here before?

To examine and then to describe the features of a challenge may well provide the foundation to understanding.

From understanding, possibilities open vibrantly for engagement. When dealing with a challenge one of the potentially greatest tools is perspective. 

Presented with challenge, can you see opportunity?


Next time on Be In It, opportunity.