Are you perceiving
Dusk or Dawn?
p.s. Your interpretation is what’s insightful, it provides perspective and direction.
If you thought dawn, you’re probably embarking on a new journey, rested, fresh, and ready to go. Things are happening and it can stir up a mix of excitement and anxiousness, hope and hesitation. Energized by possibilities and ready to face the challenges, you feel prepared to embark, execute, and achieve. You’ve ready to put your learnings to action, executing and solving challenges to test your assumptions and gain new lessons. It’s hands on and your environment is ever-changing.
If you thought dusk you may be at the end a chapter, it’s change and it’s approaching. Change is always hard for humans even when it’s good because all of our nervous systems prefer for nothing to change because our instincts crave the familiar, where predicability feels like protection.
Anxious about the future or ready for a reset, when something ends it creates space. We naturally work to fill this space with worry or the day’s tasks, but for a lucky few it brings up deeper thoughts, some may call them intrusive but it’s an awareness to unconscious patterns and behaviors that have been running our day-to-day lives.
At sunset you may be craving a quiet season, which can feel uncomfortable for some of us, but it’s there to help us recover and get ready for what’s next. Continuously jumping into the next you’ve probably done which turns into feelings of running behind, trying to catch up and endlessly falling flat. Pushing for so long that it’s your new norm and stopping suddenly feels unsafe. You’ve gotten comfortable being uncomfortable, and reacting to what the moment requires, that you don’t recognize yourself anymore.
Between dusk and dawn there’s night. Between one chapter closing and another beginning, there is a space. It is there to recover, rest, and level up. In the in-between, you see yourself. Whether you’re really where you want to be… whether you like your average Tuesday, if you’re stressed, overwhelmed, and unfulfilled or present and purposeful creating the impact that makes you feel fulfilled?
During times of transition and change it’s natural to be in a state of deeper reflection, a door opens to your subconscious and you see where your decision, actions, and beliefs have led and you want to tweak a few things before the next dawn.
You get the opportunity to hear your heart and whether the processes you’ve been running on are successfully moving you in the direction you want. Honor this time and let it be rejuvenating because dawn will come and it will bring new and exciting challenges and plans that will require your attention and dedication to come to fruition.