Life Is All About The Transition
The waves have taught me that we must learn to flow and allow energy to move through us. Some days, we feel like we are equipped and ready, and then some other days can give us different information, ha! I want to share with you some of the interesting transitions that I have endured as I set out to finish writing my ninth book, Loving Yourself Properly.
"Transitions are one of the gifts of life. Gifts that we should train ourselves to acknowledge and honor. We spend so much time jumping from point A to point B that we forget to honor the beautiful transitions in between."
– Sylvester McNutt III
August 2021: I spent the end of my august and the start of my September in Florida; what a great state and location in the world. It was important to me to be in a place where there was a beach for my birthday at the end of August so I could reflect, hear the sounds of the ocean, walk along the beach a few times, and ponder life.
I knew that I was coming into the home stretch of finishing my ninth book, Loving Yourself Properly, in my professional life. Before I dove into the final months of writing, editing, and typesetting, I knew that a much-needed disconnection had to occur so I could bring fresh energy to the closure era of this project.
I must say that taking time off before this transition was much needed, and the distance gave me more authentic ideas, helped me see the project from a different light, and made me more confident in myself as a human.
I believe the space and distance allowed the relationship to grow. Think about that for a second. How many of your relationships would be better connected if you had a little more room to breathe, think and feel, and at least feel like you are choosing the relationship versus feeling obligated to it?
And of course, when we use the word relationship, many people's brains often default to romantic pairing, but maybe for the sake of seeing a bigger picture, we could suspend that instant thought.
As you look at the landscape of your life, I invite you to investigate where you are with certain relationships? Ex: social media, watching t.v., your business, your budget, your mindset, and yes, of course, other people, etc. And, as always, be kind to yourself as you introspect and dig deep into these questions.
Covid Came To Say Hi To Me
October 2021: During the final transition of this book which was to record thew audiobook every single day for about two weeks, I had someone come visit me. His name was not Benjamin Franklin, no. His name was Covid-19 and he came into my life to cause a riot! I finally had covid, after all this time and I’m glad that I had it. It prompted me to slow down and to sit with the project. I'm alive and well and fully recovered at the time of this writing, and the one symptom that I had that made me reflect was the shortness of breath.
It was frustrating, annoying, and a lot to deal with. I don't typically experience shortness of breath because I am very active, and when it does happen, my body is good at relaxing and recovering my wind. This is from over two decades of training for sports and life. Having the shortness of breath for two days was a battle because even talking felt like sport. I would be winded after saying too many sentences –– just expressing myself was draining me. Thankfully, it was only two or three days where I had that experience.
The timing of covid was interesting because I was in the middle of recording the audiobook and typesetting. I couldn't go to the studio for a bit, and I did have the brain fog symptom, which made the detail-oriented parts of my gig a new struggle. It's like a pitcher who is walking to the mound, knowing –– he doesn't have his best stuff right now. But this game that he's coming to pitch in is the playoff series-clinching-on-the-road game, ha! At the time of this writing, I do not feel like brain fog is something I’m dealing with anymore, thankfully.
The experience of shortness of breath is one that I will never forget, it also made me so empathic to others and what they have experienced over the last twenty months. I don't believe we hear this enough: everyone has a different experience with different things in life, and that is okay. I hope you are able to have more empathy for yourself and others around you after reading this today.
I say all of that to say this: my ninth book, Loving Yourself Properly, is 100% complete and will be coming out in December. In the following email will be dedicated just to this topic: how it feels to finish the book and how I am choosing to honor this journey.
I plan to do a write-up here and create a podcast/youtube video with it too. I'll be sure to send the audio links in the following email too. I am so grateful that you're here, and I will be sending you an email on Sunday! If you are not on my email list click here to join the community. If you do not have my podcast click here to subscribe to the Free Your Energy podcast. Feel free to comment below and let me know what came up for you reading this. Here are three questions for you to respond to. Respond to as many as you would like.
1. Have you had covid? If so, what symptoms did you have that bothered you most? ( Feel free to skip this one if you feel like your health status and situation is private, I respect that 100%).
2. What relationship would benefit the most from some healthy and intentional space?
3. Do you have a ritual or practice to honor the transitions in life?