Ah, the sweet allure of a fresh start.
The overwhelming desire to walk away from your life and completely reinvent yourself.
If someone reached middle age without ever experiencing that, I’d assume they were lying. It seems part of the human experience to want to rebuild your life, only now you have the experience to know what you want.
When the world seems too craven, too crazy and too corrupt, an isolated shack or a cottage somewhere far away calls like a siren across the waves.
Balancing that is the urge to put down deeper roots where you are, to put in more effort at your job and engage more with your community.
And the desire to put your feet up and coast for a little bit, taking the easy path.
We’ve reached the new year. One or more of those urges might be swirling and alive for you right now.
Do you want to run away from this life and start a new chapter?
Do you want to dig deep and build something amazing with what you have at hand?
Or do you feel the need to nap until 2025?
Whatever’s going on for you right now, it sounds like a problem that needs solving.
Some raw creativity will help.
You can’t analyse your way into the ideal lifestyle. Some rational reflection helps you check which of your ideas make sense. But where do those ideas come from? The urge to build a shack on some golden sands away from people must come from the poet inside you.
Sometimes, your inner poet is an idiot of the highest order.
Other times, they’re the only ones who make sense.
Either way, some creative thinking goes a long way with this.
Maybe the first step in reinventing your life is to read Every Creative Way. Whatever you pick – and however you pick it – creativity isn’t a luxury.
It’s essential.
So stock up on that essential here: