Sometimes, making change happen is like trying to get out beyond the breakers when there’s big swell.
You can try and go over the wave. Or even worse, attempt to dive head on straight into it!
But best to dive under the wave and stay out of its’ path.
Either way, just as you resurface from navigating the first wave, you pop up for air and another one appears straight away.
Swim out to meet it, dive under, come for air.
Swim a little further, dive under, come up for air.
Repeat. Repeat.
How long can this last?!? It’s exhausting! It feels like you’re making no progress and wearing yourself out in the process.
What would it look like to conserve energy while you wait for these big sets of waves to finish.
Is there a rhythm to adopt?
What would it look like to enjoy it, rather than resist the way things are?
Because you can’t control the waves.
But you can control how you engage with them.
Perhaps treading water between the waves is enough?
Or you can always catch one into the beach, watch from a safe distance, then head back out when it makes sense to try again.
And now that you think of it, what was it exactly you were going to do when you arrived beyond the breakers anyway?
Float and relax?
Do the current weather conditions mean you should consider relaxing somewhere else?
Like on the sand, in the sun?
Potentially Kinetic 