The interstitial part of the leap
I have mentioned before a woman I sat next to at a conference a few years ago in New York – who happened to be the motivational speaker – didn’t know it at the time, but she left my side and went up and delivered a rousing talk about how to think differently about change. The key notes of her talk is that sometimes you need to place more awareness not on the goal, but on the journey to the goal – that sounds like a cliche, I know – but she gave a visual, say you are a trapeze artist and you are about to let go of one bar and grab hold of the next – it is right at that moment, in the interstitial of the act, that the most possibilities occur – so be aware.
So I’m not having to force myself to take a leap here, I have leaped. What I’m trying to do is not close down during this transition as a part of me would like to just shut everything out so that I can have my space and I have already put on some blinders about where I want to go, so that is shutting out even more people and events. My goal is take the blinders off and to take the transition a little slower and to allow the possibilities to enter.
My mind works like a list. Sell house, check. Rent apartment, check. Quit smoking, check. Buy lot, waiting. Build house, waiting.
I need it to work like this: Enjoy today, check. Savor that glass of wine, check. Get on the floor and play with Tin, check. Eat slowly, check. Go for a walk, check.
