How To Get Your Act Together (An Unconventional Guide)
As we begin a new year, people are hungrier than ever for a way of living and working centred on their well-being and their humanity. What this will look like isn’t clear, but what is clear is that we’re never going back to the burnout-centric model.
The idea of having your act together is vague and means different things to different people, but it’s usually some notion around these areas:
Money (i.e. spending under control, saving money, no ‘bad debt’, on track with paying off ‘good debt’, regular income)
Health (i.e. eating properly, exercising, avoiding/limiting alcohol and other drugs, in good overall health)
Mind (i.e. happy, content, not depressed, accepting of yourself, confident, self-assured, embracing amor fati)
Relationships(i.e. in a solid relationship, socializing regularly, getting on with people, making friends, happy family)
Spiritual (i.e. whatever that means to you: fulfilled in some capacity)
Work-life (i.e. in an enjoyable, satisfying job, progressing well, learning & improving.)
For some people, having their act together means being happily married with kids, a paid-off mortgage, and 2 weeks a year vacation in some tropical place.
For some, it means managing to pay the bills, get laundry done, shower once in a while, and smile sometimes at a job you hate. You get the idea…it’s different for everyone.
For most of us, it’s more of a mindset. We know it when we feel it.
For moments here and there, we think we’ve got the hang of it. It’s that feeling on a Sunday when your apartment is clean, the dog is fed and napping peacefully, the plants are watered, your inbox is in order, , bank balance is healthy…
Is having it together about accepting yourself or about changing yourself?
It’s both:)
It’s the paradox of acceptance and change. You have to accept where you are and be willing to go somewhere new.
Because that’s what it really means to get your act together.
Figuring out what matters, and what you should focus your energy on and what you should let go of.
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