Lighthouses

‘Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save. They just stand there shining.’ Anne Lamott

Reviewing different aspects of your life and taking small steps to shift and change whatever weighs you down, is not always easy. So on this page you will find various ways in which you might support yourself along the way. You may think of them as stars or lighthouses to navigate by.

Personally, I find it very helpful to visualise where I am heading, even if that destination is still quite vague. Simply imagining what it will feel like to be there, can lift my spirits and bring new energy. It keeps the hoping machine running.

Breaking down change into small actionable steps which can be ticked off the to-do-list within a reasonable amount of time, allows you to lift your spirits with each success. This is also very energising. If however at any point you feel overwhelmed and perhaps even unable to visualise your destination, take these words, again, written by Anne Lamott, to heart:

‘E.L. Doctorow said once said that “Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.‘

Even if you can only see as far as your headlights, you can make the whole trip that way. And you will. You are doing the best you can. And you are always doing better than you think.