I had noticed that we ask the question without thinking, we answer it without thinking, and we don’t usually listen and truly hear to others’ responses. So I decided not to be boring with my response.
Being my own life coach, here are a few takeaways I was given from these two descriptions of the ages of life. Don’t take yourself so seriously. What is important to you right now may be completely meaningless in a few years.
This is often the largest obstacle to trying something new. We rationalize that other things need our attention, we don’t have time, this is not the right time, or we need to have other things in place first.
The unconscious, primitive reaction I had to the news was fear. This fear sent me back to my safe place; back to those habits that I had in my youth. Habits that served a purpose when I was younger, but which are nowdeterimental to my happiness. It was amazing how these habits jumped back into my life and burst out as knee-jerk reactions. I would catch myself doing or saying something out of character amazed at my own unconscious actions.