Perspective

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." -Henry David Thoreau-

Sometimes it is difficult to see our progress until we can look at our trajectory from a different vantage point: when we can take a high level look at how far we have come and determine the value of the work we have done to get here. Forward motion can appear painfully slow.

Sometimes it feels like we are at a total standstill. Hovering over the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, I experienced a moment of total wonder at the mystery of this incredibly beautiful, chaotic, messy, full life. A feeling I had not encountered in quite some time. I thought I had forgotten it and I wasn’t sure if I’d recognize it when it returned. Though it felt different and somewhat heavy with the weights of the past, I had the realization that the integration of both beauty and struggle IS the essence of wonder! Our ability to hold two truths at once and somehow find a way to continue breathing is nothing short of phenomenal. I feel that this is also the puzzling nature of transformation: sometimes we feel that we have made no progress until we take an honest hover above it all and notice the small ways that we have been true to ourselves, and have chosen our own growth along the way. These seemingly simple adjustments produce monumental shifts in the long run. Maybe you are feeling discouraged in your own progression. Maybe it feels like you’ve been going in circles without any real way out of the maze. That feeling of repetition can be disheartening and can threaten our willingness to continue trying. But what if each time around the circle has been slightly different? What if, from the macro view, you HAVE made a slight adjustment with each run around the circle? Maybe the first run brought a new small, healthy habit. Maybe the second go around led you to a truer friendship, maybe the third introduced a gentle affirmation and led you to more hope than the prior two… In that case, if you were to take a macro look at the circles, you’d see little exit windows out of the maze that are slowly opening up more options for you to explore a wider surface area.

The point is, change can feel slow, but if you are committing yourself fully to growth, I guarantee that changes ARE happening - even when you don’t see them right in front of you.

Stay well, Friends. Rebecca Founder & Coach