Abandoning Melancholy
I was having a conversation with someone a few days ago, who talked of his growing sense of melancholy in respect of the social restrictions of Covid lockdown. Weary is another word with which I resonated.
It’s not just Covid that can cause such negative feelings; it can be a job that seems to be going nowhere and you know you are just going through the motions; or a lifestyle - hobbies, friendships etc. - that no longer energise or give pleasure or affect you negatively. You tell yourself to shake out of it but that melancholia remains and life seems DULL.
Change is calling you; courage may be needed; discernment will definitely be required - no throwing baby out with the bathwater! Some life-giving changes are big but sometimes a big difference will be made through a tweak here and there. The main thing is to investigate what is no longer working and get the help of a coach (me!) to engender vision, bring some clarity and find the actions that will set you on the path to a life that makes you happy to jump out of bed at the start each day.
Please get in touch for a complimentary call to experience how helpful a programme of coaching could be for you. Message me or go onto my website, link in the first comment. Let’s get going!
Learning from the Woodpecker
There’s a Greater Spotted Woodpecker that visits my garden and has worked out a way of eating the sunflower seeds that other birds of it’s size can’t manage to do. While small birds sit on the bar and bend down to the seeds, the woodpecker hangs on and reaches up. Thus displaying his pretty orangey-pink tummy. He worked out how to adapt his feeding style to the circumstances. The blackbirds haven’t worked it out.
How will you adapt to the multiple changes that Covid has forced upon you? What do you need to consider in this new year? How will you find a rhythm in a life that currently seems so uncertain? What will bring you peace? I can help you untangle, prioritise and put in place a framework that will stand the buffeting that change brings. Not a new you - a full you, flexible and flying free. Message me or contact me via the website. I’m full of hope for you.