Start again… and again.

We have the opportunity to start again every day.

I love this. About life. No matter how far we have fallen, everyday is a new opportunity to start fresh. To choose different. To change one small habit, that is holding us back and make a new one. That can snowball and change the trajectory of our whole life going forward. 

Sometimes we know what that choice might be but it is taking us a while to commit.  Be it putting down sugar or our phone. What we pick up, will be our go forward point. The carrots and hummus or the walk in nature with no phone. This is our salvation. The beginning of a new habit to replace the old. 

Re knitting back our neural system. Giving the cellular matrix a boost. Adding some sense of achievement over beating the loop in our mind and body. And also hope, that we might be successful at another pathway, no matter how small. 

In my world. Doing new things is very tough as I get a lot of anxiety and tend to just not show up or hide. Inside my panic stations are at a high. What one person might think of as just showing up to a job, course, date for me is like going bungy jumping. It feels like a cliff or a bridge with no elastic attached to my ankles.

But faith that what I am stuck in cannot be worse than what I normally am experiencing day to day, and am sick of the sight of or feeling of being trapped in…. That is my push. And trust, that the Universe wouldn’t have put this opportunity in front of me if it didn’t think I was capable of holding space for it, had the tools and could cope.

Spoiler alert. It doesn’t always go well. Some things are EPIC fails. A double uppercut to to face and body. Where I just go, wow, who knew it would go that badly. But mainly it meant that it did not meet my expectation, that it did not follow the path that my mind had conjured and the ending wasn’t my narrative. So it didn’t go wrong, it was always that way. Just not in my head. 

But then I move on to the next step, one step at a time, and at some point, I look around me at the things I could control, and how I got there. Perseverance even when things look grim, is ultimately, the name of the game. Tenacity and resilience. Because the last photo I took as I left QT after a very successful work trip, is reflective. I didn’t get everything I wanted but I surpassed in the things I worked for. 

So take the little steps. Each time you make a change, you create a ripple in time towards a future version of your self and your life that perhaps you never even knew existed. But it starts with a step forwards. Not back. 

If you could name one habit that you do daily that you know is preventing your from being a better version of yourself. What would that be. 

If you could put that habit down, for 30 minutes a day, can you think of a different positive action that you could replace it with.

What will stop you from doing that today. 

Is there a reason that it is not something you can change that at the moment.

What is that reason.

Is there a way to navigate around that reason in a timeframe that is acceptable. 1 week. 2 days.

Can you take that step instead.

Now you have the space to take up the new habit. 

Prepare the new habit so that it is ready to start when the opportunity and timing allow.

Start the new habit. 

Write how you feel afterwards.

Write how many times a week you might be able to complete that same habit. 

You are now on track to making life changes.