What Do You Need to Change?

That’s the question that’s permeating my thoughts this morning.  Something is definitely not working in my whole “how I work” paradigm.  It’s a situation I experience a fair bit in the summer time.  You see, as someone who works from home — and generally LOVES it! — when summer comes, and the children are home along with my husband who’s a teacher, my fairly easy, “regular” routine goes to hell in a hand basket.  And it takes some adjustment on my part to come up with a new plan of action to work as effectively as I’m used to.

This year, however, it feels like things are requiring more than a little adjusting.  It’s more than just tweaking that needs to transpire (or at least, that’s the sense I’m getting).  It feels like I’m being called to actually implement some fundamental changes in the way I work   Which has me get really curious:  if something needs to change, what is it exactly?  How do I determine what needs to change, and then (perhaps more importantly) how do I implement that change with ease and grace?

As I ponder these questions, I realize that these are important questions for everyone to ponder (not just me) from time to time (not just in the summer).  Change is good.  Change is what keeps you moving forward, progressing, advancing, evolving.  That being said, change often involves letting go of something old  (read as “what isn’t working”) and embracing something new.  And it’s the letting go that human beings resist.  To which I respond with the following mantra:  “Letting go is not loss, it’s freedom.”

Bottom-line:  it’s time for me to find a new way to work.  It’s time to implement change, however small or big, with a view to working more efficiently, effectively and productively.  What do you need to change?