I’ve recently learnt a lesson that’s been a long time coming, I can be a bit slow at picking things up sometimes 😉
I’ve always been a creature of habit – majorly – my life has always been run on habit and routine and I used to get totally stressed out if that routine was disrupted for any reason.
But what I’ve realised lately is that by making one small decision (okay, maybe rather a big decision actually) and taking my life off in a different direction many of my habits have been forced to change or been eliminated completely.
And guess what? The world didn’t actually end, life has gone on and in a way that I couldn’t possibly have anticipated.
I am absolutely stunned by how my thoughts and ideas, my outlook, my perspective on life – my whole life really, has changed.
Yesterday morning I sat in a cafe in the city that I hadn’t been in before, in an area of the city that I hadn’t seen for many years and watched the early morning sun reflect through and off the huge glass windows of the high rise office buildings, and I realised how light I felt. The word that sprang to my mind was *sparkly* – I’ve created for myself a *sparkly life.*
Wow!
That realisation actually lit me up.
Okay, there were no actual neon lights glowing around me and no fireworks sprouting from the top of my head, but I felt them. I felt those lights around me and I felt those fireworks that I’d lit in my life, by daring to step outside of my routine and explore what else the world has to offer.
It is possible for a leopard to change its spots, this leopard anyway, she just had to want to, and you obviously can teach an old dog new and spectacular tricks.
So try it, change one habit today, see what happens.
