When it's time for a change

Here are some snippets from posts inspired by those days, those moments, when you just know that it's time for a change.

Resilience or the art of bouncing back

What a great set of ingredients for being resilient, for bouncing back.  And don't you love the word - I feel more positive just saying "bouncebackability"... and for me it immediately conjures up a sense of movement, of energy, of dynamism, of springing back...

Permission to narrow your focus

But it also reminded me that picking your spot takes some courage, some conscious, explicit decision to turn your attention away from all the other things that are calling to you, that you could spend your time on, that might be fun to explore, that are worthy causes for you to commit to.

And sometimes you need nudges, reminders, pointers, permission maybe that say: it’s okay to narrow your focus, to turn your attention away from everything else.

When it's time to wake up

I don't know if you've ever felt like you've been sleep-walking your way through life?  I think most of us have, some time.

Times when we've been so caught up in our busyness we've forgotten what we were trying to do or where we were trying to get to.  When we've given so much time and energy to other people that we've lost sight of ourselves. Our selves.  When life starts to lose its colour, its detail, its wondrous beauty.  When we we just drift along, as if asleep

Happy Butterfly Day

I think for me "Happy Butterfly Day" would mean a celebration of:

• everything that was colourful and beautiful in the world
• the amazing diversity of human life
• the wider world that we live in, recognising that our actions, our butterfly wings, can make a difference (for good or ill) in other parts of the world
• people who have the courage to step out of the chrysalis
• the importance of flapping our wings and flying free

Find out who you are and do it on purpose: Part II

Find out who you are and do it on purpose - well to me that's about starting with yourself, so the purpose stems from inside, the unique person that you are, rather than what someone else has decided for you (even indirectly, like pressure to live or think in a certain way). It also makes me smile because - for me - it captures a sense of pride in who you and going out and doing it big style, full of va va voom - which is definitely how Dolly does it :)

That's what "find out who you are and do it on purpose" means to me.  It's only one answer though. 

I wonder what it means to you?