Creating Recovery

Ever want to run away?

Find a deserted island and move in?

Over there is looking pretty good. Yeah.

For some of us, running is a way of life. We seem to need to be perpetually in motion. On the go. Taking in as much as we can stand and then some. Verging on burnout, we long to escape, to be anywhere but here. We imagine ourselves in different settings, perhaps with different people.

Imagining happier circumstances is not a bad thing. It signals a need for change, and reveals a tendency to be solution-oriented. You know that there has to be something better than this. There is. But it’s not necessarily always over there. What you need might be closer than you think.

Turn your focus inward for a moment, and ask yourself what you are really trying to be free of. What do you hunger for? What would make a difference in how you are feeling? What one thing could you do right now to make a positive change?

If you can channel your willingness to imagine yourself happier into making small, manageable adjustments, where you are will begin to look better. How you see and do things can change. Believe it. Act on it. You have the power. You just might find that, not only are you exactly where you need to be, you are where you want to be.

My imagination puts the wind in my sails, but I am at the helm of this ship, and I’m right on course.