March 2021: Before Freedom
'Build back better' is the phrase of the moment as greater freedom comes into sight. What are your plans for a new normal? What have you learned? What will feed you in the future?
An end appears in sight.
When it comes, old habits will return easily.
Choose new routines? What feeds?
What best left behind?
What to bring forward?
What to grow?
re-making
This liminal year now presents a coming beginning. Now is the time to ask ‘what good can I plant in this compost?’ We emerge…. to be the same? Or take up new routines? New ways to nurture? Fresh priorities, better habits of thought, action, feeling?
take 5
Bring yourself into meditation and then repeat the question ‘what has brought me life over the past year?’ Focus fully on the question. Don’t look for answers. If anything arises notice it and return to the question. After a couple of minutes pause and journal. You can repeat the exercise with the question ‘what have I not had that I need?’
…and an experiment!
Identify something that is life-giving for you; what habits would make this a regular part of your life? Choose one. Articulate the benefits of that habit. Create an ISA: I will… so that… and very soon… e.g. I will walk at 7:30am every day, so that I can connect with nature, and very soon I will feel my days are starting well.
quotes…
Never let a good crisis go to waste ~ attrib. Winston Churchill
Life is the ability to start over again ~ Joan D. Chittister
You have to water the flowers you want to grow ~ Stephen Covey
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