Keeping Course Through Change

If only things were constant, then I would be safe. Life static, I would find my gravity's center and be at rest. It has never been so. It will never be so. Wouldn't be any fun anyways. Change is always.

It is a time of change like we have never before seen. The constant new is scary. Our footing turns to quicksand and we feel paralyzed, our day-to-day discontinuous.

First, we must control what we can control. Identifying what is within our realm of purview and take ownership.?Influence what we can.

Most of life, however, we cannot control and must navigate. Feeling external forces act upon is, it is easy to be tossed and turned around, rising up confused as to where we stand today. We must observe the new things and try to make sense.

It is worth reminding ourselves what is at the core. What do we seek and what are we trying to do. There is value in a core direction. Our person's center that guides and remains steady. A hard-mounted compass that guides the ship.

We need ballast, something to keep us steady. This can be your ultimate vision, goal, purpose. A thing so integral that you don't even need to hold it, it holds you. Guides you when things go dark. To know where you are headed even if you don't know how you are getting there.

I put it in writing. Pen to paper, my belly fixed to the sticking place. External changes are now just things to observe, adventures to have, challenges to conquest. Where we are going stays the same even if the path there looks different.

We bend and we adapt but we don't break. We take the changes as they come and continue on our way.

?Change is. We are.

?- Jeremy