Reflection & Recovery
It’s October and I’m just recovering from August.
Something palpable happened in August. We thought we’d be in a different place with COVID-19. Everything seemed to be moving toward a finish line. Until it wasn’t.
We’ve been through waves of the virus before, of course, but this one felt different. Harder. I felt the weight of it in my whole body.
That’s when I knew I needed to make a major shift. I needed to stop looking for pandemic life to end and accept that we need to keep learning how to be, live and work in a very different world. Just laying down my resistance and my longing for what was brought huge relief.
The truth, however uncomfortable, is that every one of us is in a period of massive personal growth. We are discovering and creating things we never would have if the pandemic hadn’t happened.
Being pushed out of our norms is forcing us—and, at the same time, inviting us—to see things anew. As it turns out, the place of discomfort is where our richest, juiciest ideas are born.
Plato famously wrote, “Our need will be the real creator,” which over time became the proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention.” However you phrase it, our discomfort is giving us the creative fuel to explore what’s next for us as individuals, teams and a society overall. It is showing us that more is possible, and that’s exciting.
This is how I’m making sense of the times we’re in. As much as things feel out of our control, we are at choice in how we respond. What’s the point in staying stuck in the problem? Why resist what is? A quick check-in with our bodies lets us know that’s an exhausting path to take.
Instead, I’m choosing to move myself into the flow and let the current take me forward. It’s where creativity, innovation and success happen with ease. Feel free to jump in with me. The water’s warm.
Ways I’m Finding My Flow ...
I’ve been refreshing my interest in the Enneagram with Helen Palmer’s The Enneagram in Love and Work.
I’m going through the Unlocking Us podcast series on the Gifts of Imperfection. I just took the Wholehearted Inventory with some friends. I’m (still) working on cultivating self-compassion and letting go of perfectionism and my results confirm it.
I’m listening to Ina’s Cooking Playlist: Women Who Rock.
And, what is a better way to greet fall than with s’mores?
New Website
You’ve probably noticed our new online look and feel! Please take a look around and let us know what you think. Be sure to check out our About page with our new team photos as well as our Let’s Connect page with our new and improved Instagram feed.
Team Photo
Speaking of our new team photos. In addition to snapping some brand new headshots, we were also able to get the team together for the first time in ages. Does it look like we had fun?
-GG
