I have this future, better self I intended to start working on back in January. I would respond altruistically to situations, handle problems with kindness and offer creative strategies to challenges I’m tasked with solving in my speaking and coaching business.
And yet somehow, I woke up. and it was August, and all my well-meaning intentions had gotten waylaid.
Which is why there will be no Wednesday Wisdom this week or any week during the month of August, it’s the month I take off to clear layers of cognitive cobwebs, do some mental deep cleaning and take some time to process, think and learn.
There are so many books and articles on the importance of self-reflection that I’ll just say that we all know it’s important and even necessary to step back, in order to grow and move forward. This is how we can truly know our sense of identity, power, strength, connection and creativity. It’s doing less and thinking more, of observing and asking rather than doing.
And so I wish you a memorable August filled with epiphanies and pleasures. May you take time to play and rest and appreciate, and be ready to embrace September rejuvenated and optimistic about all that lies ahead.
