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A number of months ago, I decided to incorporate monthly massages into my self care plan. During just such an experience today, I was flooded by thoughts about how little we stop and pause these days.

The importance of pausing and checking in cannot be underestimated. Check in with your body, heart, mind, and spirit. We tend to just push forward. Keep going. Regardless of whatever is thrown our a way. And that’s not okay. We need to pause in our busyness and take inventory. More importantly, we need to decide to take action based on that inventory.

Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10.

BIG DEAL? little deal?

Asking oneself if this is a big deal or a little deal is an easy and effective way to help keep things in check when approaching life’s problems. This approach, though, fails to take into account perspective.

For example, if I’m so enveloped in my own world that I don’t realize there’s a whole other world out there, what seems like a big deal in my world may actually not be a big deal at all. All too often, I encounter folks who are losing their ever-loving minds over something they don’t really need to be so upset about. I wish to God I could help them to see it’s really not that big of a deal. How, in the moment of their freak out, does one help them to gain that perspective? Is it better to just wait until later to try for that?

I feel like people are getting more and more absorbed into their own little worlds, to the detriment of the big world. Americans used to understand their little worlds existed within the context of the big world. It seems like anymore now folks want the big world to change for their little world. I am totally willing to accept my perspective may be off on this – it would be hypocritical not to be open to that. It just seems to be an underlying problem in a lot I encounter throughout my days.

I am a big fan of figuring out and working on the underlying problem instead of only addressing the visible symptoms of the problem. Taking care of symptoms is too short-term. Again, then, I find myself asking how to get people to see, appreciate, and respect a larger perspective, beyond their own “little” world?

For those of you who know me, you may be wondering if this is a blog about my professional life or my personal life. I anticipate it will be mostly the former with a smattering of the latter.

I don’t know yet how often I will post, how long my posts will be, or exactly what I will include in my posts. And I have no idea how interested folks might be in what I post or how meaningful or helpful they find my posts to be. I guess there is a lot of unknown here. And, like my very big decision to quit my job and move, starting this blog is taking a risk. There’s the very real possibility it will fall flat on its face. I guess there is also the very real possibility it will become more than I can imagine.

Ultimately, I have to start somewhere. And that somewhere is here. I have learned the hard way that if you wait until something is “perfect” to begin, you won’t ever start it. I welcome your input and feedback as I sculpt this work in progress. I encourage dialogue about the topics and may pose questions to get that going. I want to hear from you too. How are you? What do you think about what I’m writing? How does it resonate with you?