In Part One, I ranted on about defying the current call to the new normal, why we want normality and how, in my opinion, in this unique stage in the development of the world, we have a chance to look for something else.
In Part two I will encourage us all to look forward into the New Possible by exploring how that ‘ something else’ doesn’t have to be BRAND new, it just could be POSSIBLE.
I believe that The New Possible is a mind set, a world view, a visor through which you can begin to see and be encouraged by the possibilities.
It will enable you to see the new normal creeping up on you, and at the very least, have a second thought about it.
At the very most, it will allow you to bless it and move on, even though it will have set some 'trip up traps' and diversion notices - the new normal is nothing if not cunning and utterly comforting.
For example, I imagine you have a number of unachieved goals, schemes, targets, hope and dreams, just waiting on a list for the right time to arise, because I did, and still do!
Waiting for:
- The time when you have MORE time - I sorry, but we won’t!
- The time when you have enough money - I’m sorry, but we never will!
- The time when that ‘other thing’ gets done and then.....
I call this the When /Then Paradox.
WHEN ‘this thing’ gets done, THEN, like a Domino Fall, it will set off a number of scenarios that will end up with you achieving the goal, planning the scheme, hitting the target or making the dream come true.
The problem with the WHEN /THEN Paradox is that we will most certainly get distracted by a ‘domino’
- that falls the wrong way,
- or completely off the table
And that will be that. We MIGHT well achieve something but it won’t be The Thing.
What a Prophet of Doom I am turning out to be!
So, would you have a think just now about that possible goal, scheme, target or dream.
It’s certainly not normal or we would have achieved it by now, but it is possible, even if it’s a little out of reach.
This.... this is the time you have been waiting for. The time you can take the first step, which might be a simple as physically stepping up and try dangling your toe into the Pool of Possibility. This 2020 time where everything is still different enough for us to TRY.
You know that area of the beach, the waters edge, where the sand or pebbles meet the sea, where dry becomes wet, where solid becomes liquid, where warm becomes shriekingly cold, where safe becomes a little bit dangerous, depending on the weather or how small you are?
It’s a threshold, a crossing into a new environment.
While we might not have done it so much lately, we have crossed a million thresholds in our lifetimes; through physical doorways, stage curtains, changing rooms, on and off public transport, and emotional thresholds too; love, grief, fear, joy, conflict, peace and more.
How disappointing to go through the effort of crossing a threshold only to discover simply a NEW NORMAL, which by the way IS normal, so you must defy it and hold to the New Possible.
It might make you unpopular with friends, family and colleagues, but it won’t last long, because they love you and value you.
For every rule there is an ‘unrule’ though. I recognise that for some, wanting a pre Pandemic life back is a very real lament and heart cry to be able to continue, complete, confront, compound significant projects that are on hold right now.
The time will come!
So to summarise part 2:
- The time to try is most definitely now.
- The funding is what you already have
- Ditch the When/ Then Dominoes
- Step up and Paddle in the Pool of Possibilities
- Enjoy threshold crossing
- Possibly annoy friends, family and collegues for a little while
- Put on your New Possible visor and start to see where New Normal is setting traps
- Avoid New Normals traps
In Part Three I’ll be chatting about ‘Returning’ which is not the same as ‘going back’ at all.
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