There are some things worth avoiding - being run over by a bus, putting your head in a lion’s mouth or your hand in a fire.

Have you ever had the experience of finding that there’s nothing pressing to do? It can be so tempting to look for something … anything to fill the void. 

Have you ever had the experience of then deciding to do nothing? I have found that this can be a surprisingly useful happening. It can be a relief to do nothing, to avoid the business that our contemporary culture encourages. Sometimes completely new ideas emerge - ideas that had no chance of being noticed when we are busy. 

I saw a sign on a country road - “Just don’t do it!” - not sponsored by Nike, but valuable, perhaps even lifesaving.

The MRI assume that a problem is the way we attempt to solve it so the solution is to avoid any attempt to solve the problem. They apply constraints and encourage doing nothing, stoping trying to solve it, and this often leads to a complete resolution.

We can say that avoidance is the solution … except when it isn ’t!

So when is avoidance the problem and when the solution? 

What do you think?

Rob