Do One Thing (and Birthday shenanigans)
Many of the people I know have been feeling out of alignment lately. For some, the culprit is the war in Ukraine; for others – massive layoffs, health scares, relationship challenges; there is also the issues of the pull-and-push between a career and a family, between needing to rest and wanting to create, between taking care of others and taking time for themselves.
Maybe, I just know many thoughtful, caring, talented, deep middle-age-ish people who carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, people who care and who make the world around them better.
Can this mending, caring, and ‘figuring things out’ feel better in the process?
We talked about ‘what’s not broken’ (i.e. focusing on what is working well, on giving our energy to people and projects that we enjoy as they are, not just to people and projects that need fixing);
We talked about ‘recharging batteries’ (i.e. mental, emotional and physical batteries need to be recharged differently and independently; and that we can recharge our batteries by either doing more or by doing less, depending on the situation);
Last year on my last Birthday, we talked about ‘doing more things that make you feel like yourself’, and before that – about midlife being about choices: what to let go, what to keep, and what to create more of.
It is my Birthday on February 13th, and I’m thinking that it would be wonderful for us do something playful together on this day (the picture is from our recent trip to New Orleans, which filled us with music and light):
Let’s each Do One Thing today that feels like joy, like relief, like ease;
Do One Thing that makes you laugh, no matter the circumstances.
It can be a big thing or a small thing, but it has to be Your thing (i.e. even if you’re doing it for someone, it has to make You feel wonderful rather than like a martyr).
Would you play this Do One Thing with me, and tell me know what you did?
With gratitude,
Alina
Alina Bas, PhD Researcher, Strategy Consultant
Develop sensible strategies for dealing with uncertainty.
http://AlinaBas.com
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