Routine can be comfortable and provide predictable security and patterns, but when all that is interrupted who do you become? What choices will you make about how you experience it?
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” -Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho.
Life’s interruptions include a tough health care diagnosis, the sudden death of a loved one, a key relationship meltdown. Each unexpected event raises the question: what do I have control of?
The question is not whether you will survive, as if you can control the outcome. Instead, how do you choose to experience what happens next and who do you become through it?
In this video, I name three stages I’ve observed and experienced:
Stabilize your root system.
