Halfway through the year. How are you actually doing?
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Hi Reader, The boys came home with their school photos this week. Anyone else wondering why these things take so long to come back? They had them taken in about the third week of term. It's been almost six months. I opened the envelope and just stopped. They looked so big. So grown. So much more themselves than the boys I dropped at the school gate back in February. And then the bigger realisation hit me. These photos were taken six months ago. They're even further along now than they were then. And I'd barely noticed, because I see them every single day. The changes happen in such tiny increments that they just slip past you. It's not until you hold up a moment from six months ago that you see how far they've actually come. Which felt like the perfect thing to be sitting with this week. Because we are almost exactly halfway through the year. And I wonder if the same thing is true for you. You've been changing too. In ways that are probably too small to notice day to day. Decisions you've made differently. Boundaries you've held that you wouldn't have six months ago. Things you've stopped tolerating. Things you've started believing about yourself. It's not until you stop and look back that you see how far you've actually come. So before you measure yourself against everything you haven't done yet, I want to ask you something different. What's one thing that's true about you today that wasn't true in January? Not a goal you hit. Not a milestone. Just something that's shifted, however quietly. That's your real progress. And it deserves to be acknowledged. The second half of the year starts now. And you get to decide who walks into it. One thing worth trying this week: take ten minutes and write down three intentions for July to December. Not a to-do list. Three ways you want to feel. Three things you want to be true by December. That's your second half. And if you know that the second half needs to look genuinely different but you're not sure where to start, I'd love to have a conversation. Book your free Discovery Call here: https://calendly.com/alishawaterman/exploration-session In joy, |
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