Silver
If gold is warm, then silver is cool. If gold is noonday sun, silver is midnight moonlight. If gold is first place, silver is forever second. Like a kid with a superstar sibling, silver is endlessly compared to gold. Does silver care? No it does not. Why should it? Gold might be more precious, but silver is the undeniable favorite of the hip and cool. Think Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, or any beatnik wearing all-black with a silver chain. Whereas gold jewelry is often associated with showing off, silver signals the kind of effortless chic that’s above such pandering. And this makes perfect sense, because the truly cool don’t give a fig what you think of them. It’s this lack of any need to impress that makes them so impressive. If this native element is showing up for you, think of it as a message to chill. Stop trying so hard! You just might discover something even better than first place.
The Bottom Line
CHILL OUT!
“Stop trying so hard.”
One Or More Of These Messages Are For You
- Trying too hard for the thing you want might be the very thing keeping you from it.
- There are times for passion, warmth, and heat, and times for chilling out and letting go. This is one of the latter.
- To improve your game, stop thinking about the outcome of your performance, and just focus on the next action you need to take.
- Learn to detach from outcomes in general: Do things because you want to do them, not because you’re trying to gain something from them.
- True friends are the kind you can relax with and don’t need to impress.
- Don’t be desperate: Whatever it is you want so badly, find a way to be okay without it.
- If you’re someone who always needs to come in first or be number one, quit it.
- Cats are cool. Be a cat.
