A Pivotal Place

I’m finally getting back to a post that I started in October 2022, about three months ago. I’ve realised I enjoy writing my posts, and need to fit it into my life again.

Last night I started my January “Power Up” event with the life coach Steph Brady (www.stephbe.ie) which is a six week programme of Steph guiding a group online through loads of topics, starting with Goal Setting and bringing in all sorts of things like personality types, values and so much more over the course – and all the time being on hand with advice, guidance and support, and ending in a one hour 1-1 zoom call with Steph.

How do I know so much about how the course is going to go?! Because I have done it before lol… I was lucky enough to win a place in her September course, but in the middle of it my Granny died and I lost my way and my interest (naturally enough) and I haven’t got my head back in to the swing of things properly yet. But when I was going through my notes from the start of the last course ahead of my 1-1 with Steph at the start of January I realised how far I had come from where I had started the last time. During those first few weeks with Steph, I had set into play a number of things that are life-altering…. yes yes I know that sounds dramatic…. I was going to say life-changing, and then I thought it was too dramatic, and I mainly like my life, but have a whole load of alterations I would like to make!!! So I have signed back up to do the January Power Up to jumpstart my year off and get me focused in the best way!

I’m going to insert here the blog post I had started in October 2022 and then I’ll continue off afterwards…..

14th October 2022:

I’m posting this because I feel that this time in my life is pivitoil and that I’ll look back and I’d like to have the record of it myself. And if it can help anyone else on their own journey, then even better.

I am on a journey of my own, a personal development journey I suppose you would call it.

I have a life coach, a therapist, a yoga teacher and I am starting yoga teacher training in a few months time.

Life coach, I was amazingly lucky to have won a course of sessions with the wonderful Stephanie Brady, of StephBe.ie on Instagram, and I am trying to get every last drop of value I can out of them – and I am planning on continuing on with Steph after the sessions are over because she is amazingly insightful and helpful.

The therapist, counsellor, pyschotherapist, whatever you want to call her, I have had my eye on for about 4 years now and I haven’t been in a position where I could afford to go, or felt “bad enough” mentally to go. However I decided that actually I don’t need to be bad enough, and that I want to do it so I am going to do it. So I booked an appointment, and I met her yesterday for the first time. I will be spacing out the appointments and will find a way for it to work out! I’m very excited to be starting counselling and delving deep into myself from another angle, alongside the life coach.

The yoga, is another thing that I have had my eye on for years, and from looking at things in the first weeks with my life coach, I decided to find a way and make it happen, and I saw an offer – which I hope was not too good to be true – and I signed up for it. I don’t actually neccessarily want to be a yoga teacher, but I want the lifestyle and mentality around it and I think by immersing myself in the theory and the practical side of it, I think it could really help me.

I turned 40 years old this year. However I feel like a not very fresh 60 year old.

So you can see it wasn’t anywhere near a full post, but it was filled with excitement. And filled with change and forward momentum, which is where I feel I am, moving forward.

As I said, I turned 40 last year, and I really feel it has sparked a change in me. I feel like I need to come out of this decade (i.e. turning 50) in a whole new place, and if I don’t I won’t have much life left in me. I need to change the trajectory of my life, and I really feel that when I look back in years to come, 2022 will have been a pivotal time for me.

I am learning to take care of myself. I am trying to work on my health and fitness, my home, find some fun and create some mental and physical space. I am really excited.

I have increased the amount of yoga I have been doing in the last few months ahead of teacher training (I am still extremely stiff, slow and sore), I have walked a small slow walk every day this year so far, I have been working with my therapist on things and realising where and what I can add fun to in my life and what I need, and I have signed back up with Steph to get me back on track with my goals and learn to kick myself in the ass to actually get things done. Silly things like cutting my hair shorted to make things easier and going to my physio ahead of a problem are other things I am doing. I’m trying to learn delegating and how to create structures and routines so everyone can play their part. There are so many areas of my life I need to make changes in, small changes that will create big results down the line!

I am excited, and I am starting from a place where my health, my body and my stress levels are not good, my house and physical environment are not helpful or productive, so I have a journey ahead of me – but I’m looking forward to the decade ahead and all the small changes that I am, can and will make to move me forward, and change my life, so that when I go into my fifties (in 9.5years time lol) it will be in a completely different place.

I’m putting this post here, now in January 2023, even though really I feel September 2022 was where I put the pin down, as a pivotal place where my life and my future changed. I am looking forward to looking back at this post and realising and seeing how far I’ve come.