Pause

What is this season of your life trying to teach you? I saw this question the other day scrolling on my socials. I paused and took a moment to think about it. Then it came to me.

I’ve written a new blog in my head over a hundred times for the past couple of months but never quite got to actualising it. Procrastination? Self-sabotage? Laziness? I could come up with a thousand adjectives to name my lack of consistency, express myself with beautifully coloured excuses, justify myself with the best defense I know. But the simple truth is, I’ve not been prioritising it.

All that time I spent thinking and formulating new informative ideas for this blog, what do I have to show for it?!

I’m borderline beating myself up at the moment. However, who does that serve? Really, who? Nobody! That’s who. The world is already finding new creative ways to beat me down so why in the heavens am I assisting it?

If you’ve ever found yourself in a similar thought-process, I challenge you to ask yourself that as well. Who does it benefit? The negative self-talk sprinkled with self-hate and wrapped in the conviction that it’s nothing but criticism.

Well, honey, let’s get help. We have to do better. In truth, if we cannot be at home within our own self, where will we sustainably get it? Loneliness is the only befitting choice.

I have highly digressed. I was talking about how I feel I wasn’t prioritising this blog. Which ties with what I discovered when I paused and thought on the question ‘what is this season trying to teach me?’ One key element is:

Focus. Focusing on what matters. Focusing on what truly matters for this season. It helps if you sieve out all that you think should matter and narrow it down to what stands between where you are right now, to where you want to go.

Now, whatever your answer (s) will be on the question ‘what is this season of your life trying to teach you?’, word of advice? Figure it out fast. Work on it asap.

Otherwise, you’ll find yourself constantly going through that cycle over and over again. It may change its shape, colour or pattern. But if you never address the issue and work on it, it’ll find new ways to present itself at different intervals of your life, till you nail it. Or you don’t, and that’s the rhythm to the drum of your life.

I’ll let you marinate on that.

Perhaps I’ll be sharing ways we can break the cycle from consuming us. For now, I ask you darling, what do you feel this season of your life is trying to teach you?