Do you feel like everything is in limbo?

Like we are just waiting for things to go back to the way they were so we can return to “normal”?

Whatever normal was…

And yet, as I enjoyed a morning walk this week, I noticed how much hasn’t changed. A bit of an ah-ha moment for me. A realization that all around me things were growing. Question is, was I growing?

I kept stopping to take pictures of the beauty of new buds on the trees, new leaves, and beautiful blooms. I had been enjoying the beautiful green of the leaves in my back yard and had not stopped to consider that the newness of spring was growing all around me.

How about you? Are you growing? Or has this time of waiting and isolation made you feel stagnate?

I felt a shift in perspective that morning.

Our perspective is how we view what we see. We make our decisions, and use our emotions based on what we “see”.

It is not based on reality but rather based on what we experience, and what we believe about those experiences.

If we are using negatives scripts to our stories, then we will see the negative perspective.

 

Our perspective shapes how we look at our present.

I have seen it. I have watched the last few months and the hardships people have experienced reacted upon with negative stories that hold them back from moving forward.

I have also observed people who have just kept the status quo, they are holding on waiting for things to go back the way they were.

But I have also loved watching those who have decided they don’t want what they had before.

They want to be better.

They want to grow.

They want things to be different, stronger, more resilient.

They want to look back on hard days with special memories. Memories that years down the road when they are sitting around the table with families and friends they will say, “remember when we …”.

More time together as families, memories the kids will remember, and stories we will have created that will be talked about for years. Good or bad, we will be talking about these days for years.

How do you want to be talking about them 10 years from now?

How do you want your kids to be talking about them?

As I looked around and saw the bushes and flowers in bloom, or ready to bloom, and the new leaves on the trees, I was reminded that I have a choice.

All around me was new growth. These hard days had not stopped the sun from coming up in it’s beauty each morning, or the trees from growing, or the flowers from blooming.

Movement brings motivation and confidence because we can see the changes happening. Even baby steps are steps.

I asked myself if I was going to grow? How did I want to remember this time in history?

I want to grow.

I want to listen and learn.

I want my perspective to shape my present and to have a growth mindset.

You see, to stay still is not growth. We only grow by changing and moving forward. By taking steps. By blooming.

I want to continue to grow. To keep learning. To stretch myself to be the best version of me that I can be. To see newness and change.

They say a flower does not compare itself to the flower next to it, it just blooms.

That is what I want to do. To bloom in who I was made to be and live it boldly. To bloom boldly.

How about you?

Are you using a negative perspective for the present days?

Do you want to wait this out for the old normal?

Or do you want to grow? To be better. To be stronger and love others deeper. To live in such a way that you are making a change.

Let’s be that new bloom.

Let’s bloom boldly.

Let’s not worry about the flower next to us, but rather bloom where we are.

New blooms.

Stronger blooms.

We choose.