50 Day Blog - Day 4: Move As You Mean to Be

Our approach to life is there for us to see in how we move, if we choose to see it. Take climbing a flight of stair for example. Do you: 

• Skip up all the way to top?
• Keep an even rhythm pacing yourself to the last step?
• Start with gusto and find yourself out of breath and flagging half way up
• Take two steps at a time, making best use of the time
• Take each one carefully and precisely, possibly even counting them
• Look down at your feet so you can't see how many you have left to go
• Hang on to the bannister, heaving yourself up each blasted one
• Look ahead and forward, hardly even noticing the steps
• Take the lift or escalator every time

Ok, so what you do each separate time will change depending on what mood you are in, but there will be a general default pattern that you will tend to return to. Where else do you see that pattern reflected? How do you approach projects and challenges in your life? Any similarities....? 

Our behaviours are what we do. They are not who we are, but we can become these behaviours and habits over time. Are you really a 'look down at feet' or 'take the escalator' kind of person? Have you become something different from who you really are? 

Behaviours are all changeable - if we want to change them. So if you'd rather be a 'skip up the stairs' kind of person, then guess what you need to start doing....? 

Yes, it is actually that simple to change things for yourself. Start with small, and become every bit of the person that you actually are. 

'Til tomorrow folks...

CT x  

PS: warning warning tomorrow I have a whole day at home with nowt but myself and books for company. The resulting blog may well reflect my inner geek (the one that takes the stairs carefully and precisely, counting my way up)  ;-)