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Compass Check
It’s tempting immediately after a holiday to feel the urge to dive right back into being busy. Our culture can even tinge holidays with guilt and fear that we are lazy.
It’s easy to overcompensate when you start working again and fall right back into the mindset that equates being busy with working. But here’s a thing about “busy”: it’s easy to use it as a way of avoiding being aware of the need for change.
Maybe the last year gave you huge messages about changes that needed to happen. It would be surprising if it hadn’t, given the circumstances we have all lived through recently. But the idea that at midnight on December 31st, all that went away, and that next year is going to be “better” because it’s going to be more “normal,” will not work.
We need to continue addressing major shifts across multiple areas, and these could benefit from reflection and reassessment, so we have a clear idea of what we are getting busy with and why.
Instead of jumping straight into a whirl of activity, how about taking a few days quiet to assess where the whirlwind of change we are still going through has brought us and what the likely trajectory forward is?
Maybe one message is the need to return to what is fundamentally important for us all.