Real Renewal
The great do-over has begun. As we reenter the patterns that made up our lives prior to the pandemic, we have choices to make about what goes back into the mix. Most lives don’t get this kind of opportunity without going through a challenge. Depending on how you thought about the last year, this will either be amazing or challenging. Either way, there are possibilities. Like a great library book, it requires renewal to have enough brain-width to deliberately use the opportunity.
Subscribe
Now is the time to admit that the choices you initiated are currently a real part of your life. Forced into making choices that benefited your life, you get the chance to decide if those are keepers. For the choices that you don’t want to keep, you get to hit the delete button. You have the freedom at this point to create the better life you have been moaning about for years. Find the subscription card and fill it out quickly so you realize that you are invested. Now is the time to unlock what fits into the kind of life you know you really want.
Crisis Free
It is not a requirement for life to be hard. The idea that everything you choose needs to come from pain is actually incorrect. It is a shrinking thought passed on to make those who succeed feel even better by what they have accomplished. Life can be lighter. There will always be concerns, there will always be challenges and there will always be moments that are not joyful. But all of life is not meant to be a test. We can get conditioned to seeing these scenarios easier due to our negative bias but transitioning to what happens next comes faster with practice.
Not Starting Over
The best message to remember is that we are not starting over. We are starting again. We are starting from this smarter place. We have had time to prove we can adapt, we have had multiple chances to change and we have been able to be brave enough to discard what we really didn’t want to keep doing. We can comfortably move ahead with better knowledge about ourselves and what fits into our renewed life. So check out your current life. If you have integrated better habits, tasks, personal interactions or thoughts into your daily plan, acknowledge that this is your now life. If you still want to add another aspect, fit it in. You know how to do that. If you haven’t made changes in the last year, you can either be grateful for your great life or examine the fact that you can still start. Renewal is free.
Can you see the difference between your pre and post pandemic habits? Have you told yourself that the better changes you made are a part of your life or are you treating them as pandemic only habits? If you haven’t changed, do you know why?
