The Wide Turn
A business buzz word of 2020 and the pandemic era was the word ‘pivot’. Businesses, especially smaller ones, would make it through the trying times if they could pivot, perhaps pivot to being online, offering services from a distance or some other creative solution to ‘unprecedented times’.
I did it, you probably did it too in some way. We shifted our focus and changed our course in our personal lives, work lives, social lives, etc. There was a significant point where we had to choose to change or be miserable in our basements, drinking too much, taking in too much fear based media, and preparing for the apocalypse. Probably, whether you recognized the alternative or not, you chose the first one. You also Pivoted.
I offer transformative journeys to my clients. Folks who put up their hands and say ‘this is not longer tolerable, I want something better for myself!’ Often we start with their health and wellbeing in the program Foundations to Thrive, this is a focus on Earth element and, as stated in the name, lays the foundations for all other good things. For improved mental and emotional well being, to feel that you are of yourself in your choices and in social situations, to come into living at the cause of your life rather than the effect, etc. The choice may come from a pivot, from a singular moment of decision where you say, “Yes, I want that, take my money!” and it puts you on a different trajectory.
Then unfolds the ‘wide turn’. The work is far from over. The amount of intentional days that need to happen in succession to establish the new normal is many. Often I think back one year from today, whatever today is, and see where I was a year ago. What were the challenges I was facing, what was I excited for, what was on my to-do list. Where was I living, what was I eating, what was I reading. It’s amazing how you can tap into a whole lot of energy by presencing a day in the past. At some point, when I did this reflection, and I was in a much different place that I was one year ago, I thought about these pivots and trajectory shifts and wondered “What was the one moment, the one pivot, that changed so much?”. I realized it wasn’t and there were a lot. It was a series of decisions and actions over the course of time, even over the course of the whole year, or perhaps it is still going on. All of these cumulative actions and changing the course of my life and it is not near as glamourous as one quick, likely emotional decision, to change it all. It is a slow process, day after day, of consistent intention and action, reflection and planning, to put ourselves on a new path where we are stable and at choice. What does your ‘wide turn’ look like?
