Starting The Course: After The Holidays And Starting A New Cycle
September is a start. Somehow we start the year. Although we went on vacation in July, the feeling is that it is in September when summer really ends and, furthermore, we inaugurate the new course.
Everything we have experienced during the past months is still with us and the new demands cannot wait Times of transition, like this, go better when we put emphasis on taking care of ourselves.
Below I discuss five habits that help us better cope with the early stages of this new stage:
1. Maintain as much of the holiday spirit as possible and healthy
During times outside of the daily routine we often discover, or rediscover, something that feels really good to us. Sometimes it’s seemingly simple things, like how well we feel when we get the rest we need. Others are true discoveries, a type of reading, or a certain type of exhibition, for example.
Given this that has surprised us and feels good to us, It is worth reflecting on how to maintain it in our daily lives They are the discoveries that increase our daily vitality, the vitamins of the soul, so to speak.
Everything has its precise moment. What is good to do at the right time or period. When it lengthens it stops being adaptive, we stay there fixed and we do not face what life brings us in the present moment
In September life gets going. The ramblings, so absolutely necessary, must be translated into actions. Another example would be the social relationships that we sometimes have during the summer months and that, necessarily, have to change. Other examples could be related to eating and resting habits that are not useful to us in the whirlwind of the daily routine.
3. Reflect on what we want for the coming months
In each new cycle there is the opportunity to decide, to some extent at least, where I want to direct my steps. Choose the direction, orient ourselves towards a certain place
From my point of view we have the possibility of choosing where we go, within a certain margin. Sometimes we decide to stay on the path we are on. The key is knowing that we have the opportunity to do it consciously.
4. Firmness to maintain what is good for us
Often what is good for us in our lives requires effort to maintain.
That personal relationships with my environment are rich is something that does not happen alone. Maintaining a job is something that must be planned and requires a considerable level of organization
In general, in our society the importance of effort to maintain what is good is not conveyed and a certain naivety is encouraged about what it means to achieve and maintain these types of things in our lives.
The overwhelming demands of the beginning of the course sometimes make us put all our attention into making it go as well as possible and there is a certain enjoyment, a certain joy of living, that we forget to take care of so that it continues to be present. The lack of what gives us joy, whatever it may be, makes us narrow our breathing, our gaze, and the demands of this new stage seem unattainable and leave us exhausted.
Effort is as important as enjoyment for this new beginning to be prosperous for us.
In short, with these five habits I propose take control of the situation When taking the reins we must always take into account how we are, who I am going with, what the environment I am in is and where I am going. We live in a complex world in which we must know how to listen to both the context that surrounds us and ourselves and, in that dialogue, feel that we are still us, that I am on a meaningful path for me taking into account my circumstances.
What gives us vitality is the guide of where we really want to go and the awareness of the effort involved in starting a course keeps us realistic and focused.
