Being Curious

Dear Friends,

The shift in seasons can be felt all around us right now, we are on the verge of change in the world around us.

Remember last week’s blog post, when I talked about setting a boundary about a silly little, but important, thing to me?

Last week, one of my students and I were talking about the importance of trying the new, the unfamiliar, even when we are not so comfortable with the new, with the unfamiliar.  

It’s important to know ourselves, and to set our boundaries, that is, I think, of utmost importance…but there are times when we might consider something a boundary because it doesn’t feel familiar to us, because we are uncomfortable with the thought of change…and I do think there is great value in being willing to be curious about, and to perhaps take a risk and try something new even if that new makes us uncomfortable.  We simply don’t know if it will resound with us if we don’t try it.  While not applicable to everything, I do think we would all be well served to move through our lives with a little more curiosity.  

Take my silly little boundary from last week as an example.  Yes, the question I ask myself, “how can I continue to show up in my work feeling genuine in what I do so that I don’t feel like an imposter” is an important question to think about and feel into, and, in my own life, it wouldn’t serve me to ignore that question and forge ahead with something new because that something might create more followers or get me more attention.  But if that question causes me to get set in my ways without ever being curious about how new and different ways and modes might make me feel, if that questions makes it so I refuse to try new things and be curious about how those new things might feel in my life, if that question makes it so I don’t ever change and shift what I’m doing even if it would serve me, then it is allowing me to get stuck, to stop being curious, to stop growing and learning.

My dear friend, I hope you can live your life feeling genuine and true in what you are doing and how you are living, and simultaneously stay curious about ways that you can change and shift as you continue to grow and learn.

Have an amazing week.

Love
Krista