The Power of Zooming Out and Zooming In
Changing your perspective can mean a change in your life
No matter how self-aware and mature you might be, it is possible that life throws you a curve-ball that you can’t handle, and you freeze.
I usually take pride in my persistence and grit and I know that if I put my mind to anything, I can do it. What I wasn’t ready for — for some odd reason — is that can come a time when I simply don’t feel like putting my mind to it.
Feeling stuck is worse than failing.
This year started in a weird way, and I hit a new low. Regardless of how well my job and writing were going, I hit a wall and I just didn’t know what to want. As is the rug was yanked under my feet and I was in a slow-motion free-fall. Not knowing what to do, not exactly hitting the ground even.
It was the worst kind of limbo that you can imagine.
I had had a grandiose plan of moving to another city, another country — starting a new life. I have been planning it for months, with dreamy eyes and with cold pragmatism. I was taking on extra projects to make more money and to assure financial stability. Planning and dreaming became my life. I put my real life on hold — because I was going to start over anyway.
