As I type this, it’s the first day back to work after a couple of glorious weeks of family time. And although a quieter house and cooking for fewer people is easier, I wasn’t yet craving getting back into routine. (Having to brush the snow off my car both before and after my 6 a.m. gym class did not improve my mood this morning!)
Continue reading “Know the Game You’re Playing”Build Some Scaffolding
I’m no builder. But I do understand that builders use scaffolding temporarily to help them reach hard-to-reach places and to keep themselves safe. They remove it when they don’t need it anymore, but they also wouldn’t dream of building something big and new without it.
Continue reading “Build Some Scaffolding”In Good Company
As we near the end of the year, and this series on learning to love liminality, I want to land in a highly pragmatic place: all of us are in between things all the time, so we might as well learn to like it here!
Transitions are the norm, not the exception. In fact, we’re almost always navigating more than one at a time. In a recent study I commissioned with 1,219 midlife participants across Canada and the US, 40% reported being in the midst of more than one transition.
Continue reading “In Good Company”Paralyzed by Possibility
People in the messy middle of transition often describe feeling like they are trying to see through fog or swim through mud. Yuck. No wonder learning to love liminality feels like a tall order!
Two reminders I find helpful at this stage:
Continue reading “Paralyzed by Possibility”Pick Your Pathway
(The next instalment in our series called Learning to Love Liminality)
You get to learn to love liminality in your own way.
Here’s what I mean:
You don’t get a choice about whether to adapt to your new reality or not. But you do get a choice about how.
Continue reading “Pick Your Pathway”