Lately, I’ve felt a bit like a Transformer—shifting into whatever form I need to take to navigate the next challenge. Everything I need is already within reach… I just might have to make some adaptations along the way.
Maybe “challenge” isn’t quite the right word. It’s more like traversing the next leg of my life journey. I’m moving, learning, shifting, and then moving some more. It’s fascinating to sit back and reflect on it.
Revisiting the Life Quest Playbook
My friend Dave and I have been going through the journal we created a few years ago: 30 Day Experiment: The Life Quest Playbook. Today we completed Day 25, so we’re almost at the finish line.
Each day, we go through the prompt, make notes or doodles, then post about our experience on a website we are developing. (If you’re curious, check it out here: The Experiment Blog).
Resistance as a Signal
Going through the experiments has been helpful in keeping me present to my goals on a daily basis as well as helping me see where I might be slacking off or being resistant.
I had a realization last week that the things I am resisting are actually things that I need to turn and face fully. They are the things that I need to run towards. It reminds me of my training in the police academy. As future officers, we knew we were the ones that would be running towards potential danger in order to help other people.
In this scenario, though, I would be moving towards things that I perceive as potentially dangerous (to my ego?) in order to help me live on purpose and with joy.
Heavy. And motivating.
Shifting My Focus
I spent the latter part of last week and the weekend shifting some aspects of my life so that I can focus on two things:
- Creating (in whatever form that takes)
- Connecting (in whatever form that takes)
Right now, I’m still leaning more heavily into the creating than the connecting. But I’ve already cleared out a large chunk of distraction—and I plan to simplify things even more going forward.
It still makes me nervous.
Cue transformation.