I’m feeling a bit unsettled still…
At least for me, when I feel like this, I start focusing on all the little things that might be contributing to this feeling.
This year feels like a lot of unsettled moments, particularly related to my living situation:
😉 Selling our first home that was a rental for 20+ years…it’s a goodbye to a great chapter of my early adulthood.
😉Deciding to sell our first Delaware home that we’ve been living in since 2003…another goodbye to a chapter in our lives.
😉Picking a location in Lewes to move to and building a new house…another stressor as we looked at lots of houses and then decided to build and the “fun” of trying to make all the right choices on what you want in your home.
😉Moving into our beach condo while the new house was being finished and not having all our stuff and adjusting to less living space.
Now, we’re here in the new house but living among boxes (less each day), but it doesn’t feel like home yet since the walls and floors are bare, and we’re still figuring out what it will take to make it feel like the vibe we imagine. Thus, the continued feeling of not yet feeling settled.
Whether you feel unsettled in your living situation, career, or personal life, it can drain your emotional and physical energy. As my functional medicine doctor likes to remind me, our body doesn’t know the difference between stress coming from positive things (a new home, a new job, a wedding, exercising, etc.) and more negative stress.
We need to remember this and put support structures in place to keep operating with a pretty full battery.
I’ll continue emphasizing this need to think about leading ourselves as an endurance sport with no known finish line.
We need regular reminders that if we’re going through a current sprint phase, we need to find the opportunity to rest and recover both during the sprint and after it concludes.
If you’re at an inflection point and trying to feel more settled, reach out so we can talk about whether a laser coaching series (4 30-minute coaching sessions) might be useful.
Enjoy your fall weekend!
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