All tagged change
What is it that we like about “sameness?” Isn’t funny that we as adults tend to be much more attracted to sameness than kids? For some reason, the older we grow, the more group-ish we become. What comes from our group-ish tendencies? Does that produce positive results? And ultimately, why does it even matter?
We’ve got our work cut out for us in this one…
Noticing is an art.
In our modern world, especially in western society, we are very skilled at noticing what’s wrong, noticing what’s missing, noticing what we don’t like about a person or situation. But finding the good? Noticing what’s positive? Discovering the silver lining? Yeah, that’s something we’re quite weak in.
We need each other. We need to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. Living in family and being a part of community are the primary ways we accomplish this innate desire within our hearts.
When change comes, we desperately need a shoulder to cry on, a hand to high-five, a body to hug, an ear to talk to, a person to redirect our attention toward, a perspective from a different view. The experience of change is drastically different when in community versus isolation.
Change can be scary, uncomfortable, intimidating, chaotic, unscripted, sporadic, and eventful to say the least. In the same breath, it can be exhilarating, exciting, growing, and enlightening. Change is neutral, a “choose your own adventure” of sorts.
What we do with it is the result that can be either good or bad. So, how are you going to use it?
If fear leads to assumptions, then love leads to believing.
Choosing to live out of love instead of fear helps us thrive in the midst of uncertainty. More importantly, it opens up the door for us to believe the best instead of assume the worst.
Change is an unsettling force in our lives. A storm that threatens to dislodge us from our foundation. Change is all around us and is being felt by humanity more than I have ever experienced in my lifetime.
Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to show and extend more grace to yourself (and others) especially in tumultuous times of change.
Change is more consciously present in our world than ever before (in my lifetime at least). The question is: how do we embrace change?
Regardless of how much change we are going through, we can always remain grounded by practicing our daily rhythms or our cornerstone habits that keep our lives in place.
Change isn’t comfortable. It feels like a foreign land. It feels like we are never able to get our bearings straight. It feels like rain when wanting sunshine, heat when wanting a respite, sugar when wanting substance. It’s an uncomfortable place...
But what is it really?
You can change. No, I’m serious. You really can. But why don’t you? Why don’t we? . The struggle to change is a human dilemma that every individual faces to one degree or another.
And guess what? We are all capable. We can all be catalysts for the change we wish to be. You are the placebo. You don’t just hold the key, you are the key.
Like an Oreo, life is meant to be shared.
From the oxygen we breathe to the planet that we inhabit, every aspect of life is amplified by the ability to share. Sharing is one of the greatest means we have to experiencing joy and fulfillment each and every day. And it’s a part of life that is readily available, always within reach of our current grasp, no matter the place we find ourselves in.
The culture of “hipsters” is pervasive. At the heart of being a hipster is the desire to go against the commonly accepted way of life, bucking the traditional norms and expectations of society.
At it’s core, this is the desire to: stand out.
