August in Montreal

I spent the last week of August in Montreal getting our youngest son settled into ‘university style’ living.

There was so much movement abound! All was spinning for the freshmen alike and for their parents or guardians. I couldn’t help but notice that the level of angst and excitement gave everything around more inertia. Of course, the humid summer temperatures gave a little hot edge to matters of importance and matters of less importance.

It is how we perceive changes and transitions that will determine the way things go. Many years ago there was a workshop run by PLAN, called ‘Letting Go of our Kids’. Unfortunately no-one enrolled. However, when they changed the name of the workshop to ‘Holding on Differently’, the attention of many was captured immediately and many parents registered. Amazing how the artful coaching skill of reframing can do such wonders to help shift our perspectives.

As the official date of summer is almost behind us, we can celebrate lots of styles of how we live, while also paying closer attention to how we react to change and transitions. It is in this act of stopping, and noticing what is working and what is not, that growth happens and momentum is gained.

I have called this blog MOMentum inspired from many realizations. Life is dynamic. Kids grow up. We birth ideas. We move forward. We stay the same. We challenge the status quo. All of these recognitions have movement in them relative to what is being created.
Let us create new beginnings and acquire differing styles of momentum that serve us, and those that we care about.

Sweet September to all!

Yours in MOMentum,
Debbie Havusha