Choosing adventure as progress

Transition can prompt all kinds of thinking.


Some changes are imposed on you, but can lead to a completely altered life. Some changes are prompted by a desire to escape the negative; a failing relationship or a terrible job. I've been thinking a lot about positive change, and the conscious desire to take control of ones own destiny.


While fate, luck, and other creatures with free will that have influence in your life can all play a part, there is always something in your life that you can control, and use it to make positive changes.


I've had a big transition year. All of which will become clear in later posts. But I am still in the transition phase, and nowhere near being the final article. I don't really know what the final article looks like, but I'm realising that the only way to find out is to try on some hats, go on some adventures, and see where life takes me.


There's a phrase I picked up in my last (awful) job: small tests of change. If I can resolve to testing some changes, trying new things, and pushing myself towards the scary and the unknown, I might just find what I'm looking for. And if I don't, then I at least have a story to tell.


So, here's the plan:

1. I will commit to trying something outside of my "norms" for one week. 
2. I will choose at least two new adventures every month.
3. I will accept that this has to be something I can fit around work and other commitments.
4. I will COMMIT to each task. If' I'm jogging, then I'm out there at 5am in the rain; if I'm knitting, then the needles and wool are coming out in public; if I'm in a murder mystery club, I'm dusting off a fedora and diving in. No half-arsedness. 
5. If I discover that I like it, it's okay to continue, as long as it doesn't interfere with new adventures. 
6. I will try to involve one friend or family member in each adventure.

Why one week? Well, my natural propensity to constantly change my mind about things would interfere if it was any longer, and there's no point in only committing to something for one day. You can't really immerse yourself in it.

The only challenge is trying to work out what to choose first... And yes, I already know that blogging doesn't count.

Em