Baggage & Bucketlists
Can you offload anything?
I spoke about the fertile ground that pausing creates to allow us to re-calibrate last week. Today it’s about moving forward.
How do we gather ourselves to take a step in the direction that our heart, and every ounce of our being wants to go, when we are being pulled, in so many other directions?
Where do we start?
Now I am not talking about plotting world domination ( although if that’s what you want - yay!), I am simply talking about having a map that allows us to step fully into our life to feel the joy and delight of living meaningfully, creatively and purposefully. Doing the things we actually want to do … And maybe removing some of the things that we don’t.
A place where we start to feel - I am not even going to use superfluous adjectives … good, contented, grounded… as our default.
Where we are comfy in our own skin and live beyond the surface level.
Where we unravel & have a sense of freedom to explore something more than what we have been experiencing.
Don’t you just want wake up in the morning looking forward to the day ahead? Have experiences and food and connections that nourish your heart and soul? That your work, whatever that may be, gives you some sense of fulfilment and there is a meaning to why you do what you do?
I do.
Some days can be just that, some days …not so much.
So when we wobble, and we will, and when we get detoured by the challenges and traumas that life throws at us, because they will come, and often with regularity, are we able to build a toolbox of strategies and techniques so we have the capacity to feel empowered to support ourselves, while being held by others as we move through these times?
Hell…Yes Please.
For most of us in Midlife, we have been at the buffet of L.I.F.E & our plates are full.
Maybe even, overflowing.
Like you, sometimes I feel stuck. Can’t be bothered. Exhausted.
However, I do know the way out is movement. Small actions are enough.
Doing something more than staying in the roundabout of thoughts, mulling over the wishes, the coulds, the shoulds, the woulds.
Having the ability to change the scenery, take off the blinkers to see more broadly at what is available.
I know it all starts off with me doing me. Me looking after me - my body, my mental health and my emotional wellbeing. I know I can only do that by paying attention, by putting in the work.
And yes it’s work, but isn’t something valuable worth working for? Are we valuable enough to ourselves that we are worth putting the time and effort in?
If you take one step with all the knowledge you have, there is usually just enough light shining to show you the next step.
- Mardy Murie
To make a plan, we begin methodically & strategically.
Firstly, a stocktake of the baggage we are carrying and how that aligns with what we want to do and where we want to be. Like a warehouse full of stock, we have to take inventory of everything, before we know if we need a fire sale or what we need to add more of.
It’s not easy. I am not saying it is.
Honestly, we can never reconcile some things. Our only option is to have them live alongside us as a pillion passenger.
Yep some things just suck.
Here are some ideas:
:Align with people who are in the trenches with you - As much as we love them, who wants to take advice from a lithe 20 year old who only experiences a hot flush when they’re waiting for Taylor Swift tickets online. In midlife we have biochemical considerations, a body that has lived in the trenches, and life experiences that not many 20 year olds can relate to.
:Find someone to hold your hand with one hand and hold the torch with the other - until you can find your own way.
:Don’t be talked at or too - Engage with people who want to empower you with education, skills, knowledge and strategies so you can help yourself, rather than those that say…my way is the best and only way. No-one knows you like you do.
:De bunk any myths - fad diets are just as trashy as fad fashion. Trust research backed advice as well as your own intuition. Have good health professionals and doctors. Ask questions. Know what your blood work numbers are and how you can help support your own health through personal choices.
:Honesty goes along way. Stop kidding yourself & making excuses. Value who you are, what you love and work out ways to get to where you want to be in your world.
Why? Because we only have one life and we want to make it a goody. That’s why!
Self reflection and intention bundled up with actionable steps, and a support network for accountability is the starting point.
Here is an invitation for you to join me for a 20 minute lunchtime
Monday January 29
12.30PM
where I ask you to consider just a few simple questions which will help you start to quantify how you want to be . (it will be recorded if you can’t make the time live)
For more Information To sign up: RSVP here.
Moore Nourishing Life is a space where you can land, find support, motivation, encouragement. I am your biggest cheerleader, however, I am not going to be screaming at you to ‘be your best self’… sometimes we are simply average on days when life is hard.
All I want to do is help you create the rituals and foundations that will see you through any day that will also support you when you need it most.
Taking time to reflect and carve out some thoughts about what to invite into our life doesn’t take long. It is an intentional process & allows us to springboard in a forward trajectory.
Come with me. I would love to have you along for this ride. Because it doesn’t stop with this. I have other programs and experiences rolling out. I want us to meander together, take in the scenery, breathe the air, rather than sprint as fast as we can to get to a destination.
Gather together, gather some thoughts, & open a conversation with yourself about the direction for your Wellbeing. Identify unwanted baggage so you can attend to your bucketlist.
Thank you for tuning in. Have a great day
Love Mon
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What is a Moore Nourishing Life?
It is building the foundations for a life where we optimise our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Make this game of life a game worth getting out of bed for - to connect in with the little things that bring delight