A Call To Pause & Re-Set

This is my gentle reminder to you.
Pause and Re-Set.

Normalcy is no longer. Look within.

Driving on automatic while daydreaming is no longer possible.
The events of the past two weeks have been a 5-alarm wake-up call.

8 minutes and 46 seconds.
A Call to Pause & Re-Set.

Collectively We Need a Pause & Re-Set.

I thought that’s what COVID provided for us.
That that was “the Pause”.

I was expecting a completely different Re-Set.

COVID set the foundation.
We already had turned inward to re-evaluate the treadmill we’d been on.
What we had known as “normal”.

A lot us had committed to realign our lives with our values once normalcy returned.
If that ever was to be.
The new normal.

And then it all went up in flames.

George Floyd was slowly murdered on screen by police officers Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas Lane, and J. Alexander Kueng.
A knee on the neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

The fire alarm had sounded.
Our country and its foundation of freedom were on fire.

8 minutes and 46 seconds.
A Call to Pause & Re-Set.

Collectively We Need a Pause & Re-set.

A Pause To:
Assimilate how this tragedy happened on our watch, during our lifetime.
Inquire how we are subtly or directly complicit in institutionalized or systemic racism.
Educate ourselves in the history of all Americans. The history that has been erased and censored from our textbooks.

A Re-Set To:
Listen with Love and connectedness.
Interrupt racism with tenacity.
Share privilege with generosity.

8 minutes and 46 seconds.
A Call to Pause & Re-Set.

Individually I Need a Pause & Re-Set.

A Pause To:
Feel all my feels on this topic.
Learn everything I can about anti-racism.
Determine the actions I will take that are in integrity with who I am and who I want to be.

A Re-Set To:
Be in conversation.
Listen with an open mind & an open heart.
Hold the space to take it all in with love.

8 minutes and 46 seconds.
A Call to Pause & Re-Set.

Today is the day.
Go out and practice.
Normalcy is no longer. Look within.

Be in conversation in a safe group with other women. We start tomorrow. Details can be found here.

Find out if coaching with me is for you. Sign up here for a free 60 minute coaching consult call.

“Listening happens when we put in the effort to understand what it means.
It not only requires focus, but it also requires a commitment to encountering the experience, intent and emotion behind the words. And that commitment can be scary. Because if we’re exposed to that emotion and those ideas, we discover things we might be avoiding.”
– Seth Godin

8 minutes and 46 seconds.
A Call to Pause & Re-Set.

What Can You Do?

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P.P.S. Sign up here for a free 60 minute coaching consult call. Learn more about how coaching with me can get you unstuck and back in forward motion.

P.P.P.S. Learn more about our Tuesday Women’s Warrior Group here. This is a safe place to explore your thoughts and feelings about what’s going on in our world to determine your next action steps. Register to join us next Tuesday, June 16th 1 PM – 2 PM.

Most important. Take care of you.

Here are 5 easy suggestions:
1. Get enough sleep. Establish a bedtime routine and follow it. 
2. Get outside every day. Rain or shine. Take a walk.
3. Appreciate what is wonderful in the world. Write 3 things you are grateful for every day.
4. Get a buddy. Call them every day. Ask how they are and what they are feeling. Ask them if they need anything.
5. Give yourself a pleasure treat. Pick yourself some flowers. Take a nap. Read a novel. Do anything you want – just for the  fun of it. 

With all my love.
From my heart to yours.
Gail