Monday Mindset: Create Newness

These are short , little snippets of thoughts , reflections that I share with you on a weekly basis , that are focused around mindset things that we can do to live our best lives , to live an intentional life , and I invite you to not just listen to these for yourself and how they apply to you and your life , but consider sharing them with other people too .

Consider sharing them with your students every Monday and having a conversation about it and doing a reflection together , because I think a lot of these thoughts , these topics , these questions are just a part of being human , and sometimes being human can feel lonely and to know that other people are struggling through some of the same challenges that you are and are

benefiting from having these types of conversations is hugely powerful in allowing us to get to be the best version of ourselves , to take who we are and who we be and who we show up in the world as to that next level . So I really hope that you enjoy these Monday Mindsets and , if you do , let us know over on our Instagram at EVacademics .

Thanks so much for listening and let's dive into our Monday Mindset . Hello you guys , happy Monday and welcome to another Monday Mindset . Hope that you are enjoying them this 2024 . And hopefully you're listening to the other episodes on the podcast as well and you find them to be serving you .

I'm really looking forward to the topics that we get to talk about together in February , and this one is , I think , just a really beautiful example and a different way of looking at lack or voids in our lives , or when we lose something or when we're having a hard time of letting go of something , and I think it's this interesting concept that no one really

talks that much about because it's hard . And when we think about creating newness or calling in newness into our lives , I think one of the things that forgets to be addressed is that in order for new to come , in a lot of the times we've got to let go of other things , and let me give you an example of this in practice .

So , in order for me in this last year , in 2023 , to really adopt a new way of being , I went into 2023 with the attitude of what am I capable of ? What does it mean to be a high performer ?

In order to be a high performer , and how I defined a high performer , I was going to get to let go of and release and remove old parts of who I was , old beliefs that I might have had , even maybe some old friendships that weren't necessarily going to serve the who I wanted to be in my life .

And it can be a hard transition to go through , because letting go of something can be very challenging , it can be emotional , it can kind of fill us with sadness sometimes .

But I think that If we look at it from a perspective of like , for a very simple example of clothing or material items , right , when we are gonna buy , let's say , a new couch , for example , we can't bring a new couch into our house and put it on top of the old couch . Right , we gotta let the old couch go , we gotta take it out of the house .

We have to create space , we have to create this vacuum in that place in order to call something new in . And while a couch and a material thing is a very trivial example , this really does apply to our lives .

It applies to who we are , it applies to friendships , it applies to relationships , it applies to beliefs that we might have that aren't serving us anymore . And when we change as people , when we start to kind of look at life in this way that by letting go I'm letting something new in .

A lot of people aren't going to necessarily jive with that and it can be , like I said , hard to kind of mourn the loss of some friendships . But you get to look at them from a perspective of they really no longer align with this newness or this new way of being .

And that's okay , because what happens is you call in new friendships or you call in new things , or you call in new ways of being or new relationships that are so much more rewarding and aligned to who you are now . I think back to who you were five years ago , 10 years ago , 20 years ago . Things are constantly coming and going .

We live in this state of flux of receiving and letting go , receiving and letting go and the degree in which this is one of my favorite quotes from a mentor of mine the degree in which we are willing to let things go is the degree in which we are willing to allow things to come in .

And so when we allow that vacuum to happen or we allow that space to be created , we're allowing a lot of newness to come into our lives . So think about , like , even in practical examples , teaching practices that you might have or beliefs that you might have about students or certain topics or certain strategies .

If we kind of let those things go and we release them , perhaps we're allowing in something that's so much better and most people aren't willing to really do that , because it can be really uncomfortable to lean into the vacuum , to lean into the emptiness , to lean into the loss , but with that is going to come a much bigger reward or a much more abundant

relationship or something that really aligns to just who we are . And the way in which to move into the things that we really want in this life is to be okay with the process of letting things go .

And if we choose to see letting things go as a way to create newness in our lives , we're looking at now this experience from a perspective of abundance , from a perspective of opportunity , and that's a very different perspective that I feel , for me at least , brings about a lot more peace .

You know and I think about I think I shared this in January when our dog , huckleberry , passed away and we had to say goodbye to him .

That was really hard , that was a big loss in our family , but I looked at it from this perspective , not of lack , not of emptiness , not of sadness , but of a gift that I was being given to him of more abundance , of something more . You know it's this or something better always .

And that perspective , that thought , that belief , has really helped me find so much peace in my life , and I really hope that same is applicable for you .

So long story short when you think about creating newness in your life , you've gotta be willing to let go of things first , because the only way to let in the new better you , or the new better relationship , or the new better friendship , or the new better whatever , is that you gotta let go first .

You gotta let go of that old thing in order to create the newness in your life . All right , you guys . Here's to another week of living intentionally .