Oliver and I are in the process of getting our house resided.
If you’ve had home renovations done, you know what I’m talking about: The mess every time you pull into the driveway or step inside the house.
It’s enough to make you feel a little insane.
But true transformation in any form is messy, right? Whether it’s my house, relationship or spiritual journey, I’m committed to growing full tilt with the help of structures I’ve created in my life.
Every single thing I offer, from yoga to coaching, is not only for others — I actually need them in my own life to stay sane.
To have fun.
To not be bogged down.
My coaching and yoga services focus on overwhelmed entrepreneurs. If I didn’t have my own structures in place, I would be that overwhelmed entrepreneur!
I constantly see my own story in each of my offerings.
Stuck in the 9 to 5 cycle and dying to leave the rut?
I did my time at a non-profit.
The Bold Practice for a Busy Brain?
I need the Bold Practice for my Busy Brain!
The reason I teach yoga on Mondays?
It’s a powerful way to start my week and not play small. Teaching deep stretch forces me to slow down, especially since my default way of being is using busyness as a distraction from my big picture goals.
Without these structures, I’d probably be insane.
Because all insanity means is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results (thanks, Albert Einstein).
Most humans are actually insane.
A big example of this: We put off action until tomorrow, until next year. Well, life doesn’t work that way. We have to start right now.
We won’t be able to break the insanity cycle if we keep putting ourselves on tomorrow’s to-do list.
We’ll continue to skip the steps of creating vision and clarity in our lives and immediately go to, “I’ll just do this later.”
Doing something new can help you get out of the insanity loop, and these few tips have helped me (and my clients) when I’ve been stuck in a rut.
1) Be in service to others. Since we’re wired to be survival creatures, we set up lives to stay in our comfort zone. We don’t have any structure that invites us to step up, step out and make it about someone else. When you make it about yourself all the time, you’re going to drive yourself crazy and that’s where your problems come in. When you make it about someone else, you step out and get elevation. Get involved with your community by volunteering on a regular basis. Use this to build a foundation for your well-being.
2) Keep moving. If you don’t know who to be or what to do, put one foot in front of the other. Take a small step. No freezing allowed. It’s not the big stuff that actually creates the big shifts — it’s the little stuff over and over again that creates the big win. If you’re looking to get healthier and think one big weekend workout will do the trick, think again: It’s the after dinner walks every night and spinach instead of ice cream most days. Set yourself up for a game you can win.
3) Embrace all the messiness of transformation. If anyone is telling you they don’t have any mess, they’re lying — and not pushing themselves against their growing edge. We like to keep things packaged up with neat little bows, which can also make you feel insane. When people have packages in these neat little bows, they’re not growing.
Hope this takes you out the insanity loop, and if you’re looking for even more support on breaking out of it, learn more about my retreat coming up in November. You’ll meet new people, see new things and learn new things. Definitely a routine breaker.
