Time to rest a bit.
Big Pauses increase Productivity
Let’s stop right here to check our perspective. Since stopping tends to bring up so much fear of losing momentum, let’s just take a little break. The lack of support for pausing can be traced back to the tech-sped world. It was fun when it started, but like car racing, involves an ever-growing expectation to beat the last record. Mostly, we can’t even keep up. That’s why there is so much slow nodding when a new program is discussed. It’s not just you getting older. The world is getting more more every day. Sit down and put your feet up.
Pause Temporarily
The beauty of taking a break in self-coaching at this point is to recognize improvement, methods that are working well or not and getting in touch with current feelings. This should be a requirement for all humans from time to time. You have probably done this from time to time with friends or partners when you started to feel out of touch. When a quick check-in-touch doesn’t do the job, an in person visit or phone call might feel like the best alternative. Think about how you would feel if you only heard from your bestie once every six months. You might start to believe that they had other besties they were sharing life details with, or you might feel a little distance on the line. Don’t let this happen with yourself. No one gets to decide except you when it is time to reach out and hug yourself.
Keeping Track
Now you get to make a graph or picture in your notebook. This will be your personal art project. You can return to the self-coaching techniques we discussed this month and start to determine which ones were worth the money. Using your notebook in any form that suits you is a winner. Think back to our first big question about figuring out what you wanted to accomplish in coaching. How did that turn out? If you started to recognize that words had feelings, you may have been surprised. If you started to ask about the truth of everything that came up in your day, that may have overwhelmed you at first. But once the truth question is applied, it gets easier each time. Forgiveness in its many forms is a critical skill for self-coaching. If you had some funny feelings about not feeling sorry for yourself when unusual things happened, you were on the right track to never celebrating that feeling again. The benefit of repeating questions helps to find hidden answers. You may have enjoyed the idea of not taking advice. Not many humans like to receive it but like to sling it around freely.
Busy Ahead
It has been a very busy month. The pause will help us look down for a moment and check out the current path. It may seem a little more fun than before. Next month, there will be more to think about, dream over and make a part of your transformed life. If life doesn’t seem very different yet, check your notebook. Make some notes. Doodle some life pictures. If you can start to define what didn’t excite you, you have learned something. If you are starting to get a better picture of how you are actually improving your life, check out the nearest mirror. Look closely and deeply into your eyes. They might be sparkling, so be careful.
Rest is crucial to mental and physical health. Your life requires nourishment in many ways.
