The Benefits of Change | KW Designs Photography | Make it Happen
Welcome to month three of 2021! What changes have you made this year? What level of consistency have you felt with those changes?
I’ve made a few changes, and I’m seeing how they will one day help me breathe easier and feel better. There are changes with my business to grow my market, changes in my diet, sleep, and exercise habits.
All of these changes have some level of impact. Whether they’re positive or negative is determined by what I’m hoping for as an outcome.
I want to create more balance in my life, and to know what that is, I need to think about what I envision balance to look like, to feel like, what I see, smell, hear, everything about it.
Finding this balance can be a real seesaw thing! If I change one thing, it impacts another. If I change something, the way it falls may not be exactly what I intended!
Each choice has a consequence, and you never know exactly what that will be.
If I focus on one area of my life too much because it needs change, other areas will suffer and I just don’t know how to make it all work! Is that just me?!?!
What I’ve learned is how interconnected all aspects of life are. When I see or experience the need to shift one part of my life, I’m learning not to go in too hastily, unless I want the unknown domino effect to take place.
That leaves me with a choice, the leap into the unknown. I can write out all the pros and cons, and it’s still a leap into the possibility.
Do I change how I manage my finances and take the risk of gaining more money, or potentially go into more debt?
Do I change houses and get the chance to meet new neighbors, or stay where I’m at and plant new flowers, engage more with those that are right there now?
Do I stop one activity to make room for something/someone else, or do I keep doing what I’m doing and try to make the most of that?
The desire for change usually shows up when I’m no longer comfortable with what is the current status quo. I may have been ok with the music I was listening to, but now it’s getting on my nerves, so I’m ready for something new.
Or the nightly TV watching is really feeding my negative view on the world and I don’t want to do that anymore.
We tend to call this a “negative” because it’s now uncomfortable, or it’s something we don’t want anymore. And I have to ask, what in your life is negative?
I see piles of papers that need to be managed or a box of “stuff” that got shoved into a corner that will take me a day to go through.
I know I’ll feel better when the clutter is gone, and I’ll think less about the clutter that is cluttering my to-do list.
My thoughts can be negative too. And it takes time to see/hear those thoughts and recognize them in time to say “thank you, the door is over here.”
What about people? People, including myself, are hard to change.
In fact, I can’t change anyone other than myself.
If I can only change myself, then how do I manage the “negative” people in my life? Do I leave them behind? Do I need to move them out of my life? Does it matter?
I think it does matter because the time I spend with people who impact my emotional harmony also impacts that emotional harmony in the other aspects of my life. It’s interconnected, remember?!
I want my time with others to be meaningful, and I want to build my life so it has the people and things in it that I want there and want to be there. Letting go of the things and people that don’t bring meaning and align with what I want in life may be a good thing.
If you choose to make changes will it make you a better person? Maybe, and maybe not. Either way, when we jump into the possibility we’ll find out.
I’m indulging in some things a little less. Seeing that people and things have a season in each of our lives is freeing and may also have some grief attached.
A friend of mine has these song lyrics at the end of her emails, and it makes me smile. I think it’s true. I hope for myself and for others that I never lose that tiny bit of wonder and imagination. That by taking one more step isn’t so much scary as it’s fun and rewarding. That being happy for others has meaning for my life as well, because seeing other people shine fills my heart.
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance. I hope you dance...I hope you dance. -Lee Ann Womack
Cheers to your change~
Kim
Here are a few lists that I like regarding change. I hope you enjoy!
17 Easy Positive Changes You Can Make In Your Life Right Now
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