Blog #519: Why Do I Use Godzilla and King Kong As Examples in my Trainings and Everyday Life? (Part 1)

We're always going to have that internal conflict within ourselves: whether we make the right decision or whether we end up make the wrong decision. In selecting a blog theme for the month of October, I wanted to talk about an example that I use in one of my trainings that I constantly am using in everyday life: that example being the "Godzilla vs. King Kong" scenario where there is a battle for control within each of our own minds over a variety of issues. A few of these examples include whether we go to this event, we do this activity that we don't want to do but we have to do it anyway.

As a lot of you may know, one of my biggest triggers is talking about financial matters within my business. It's a boundary that I don't like to have crossed, but addressing financial matters is essential to the proper growth and development of this business. It is this where the Godzilla vs. King Kong scenario takes shape.

Here, I play the role of Godzilla, not wanting to change certain amounts of money and always want that financial cushion to pay off credit card payments. On the other side is my support playing the role of King Kong, knowing that I need to do the right thing even though it's a trigger point.

Whenever there is a matter of doing accounting after a business trip, earning a tax return or whatever, that is when Godzilla and King Kong will make an appearance to battle one another. Now, some of you may also know me as someone who tries to avoid conflict by any means necessary and stay within my lane. This results in me keeping my anger internalized and when I do feel like getting pissed, I'm also told to not get angry (which to me is the ultimate trigger because I go full Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde).

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And it isn't just about money here, King Kong (the wise counsel) and Godzilla (the individual) could battle one another over a variety of issues such as trying to get a car, deciding on whether or not a possible boyfriend or girlfriend could be approved. The truth of the matter is, is that all neurodivergent adults want to be as fully independent with very little interference as possible from their loved ones.

But the fact is that when it comes to members of our family being our legal guardian or King Kong's, we have to accept the fact that King Kong is always going to rule over Godzilla. It's something that I have to keep learning for myself, even though I would not want to consider it.

King Kong has a responsibility to protect Godzilla even though he doesn't want to (I'm also aware that King Kong and Godzilla don't have a parent/child bond, but just hear me out here) because that's why he is called King Kong: he has a responsibility to all his subjects, whether they be financial or personal decisions that he may not always support.

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But it isn't just King Kong vs. Godzilla in everyday life, there is also battles between the two in both educational and workplace settings. More of which I will cover in Part 2 of this blog.

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Catch you all later!!