Less & More #1: Less Apathy & More Love
TL;DR
We’re returning to our Less & More Series with our first challenge: #1 Less Apathy & More Love
How do you combat apathy with loving actions?
Love is staying in the conversation even when it gets hard.
This time, 4 years ago, my family and I were spending our first fall living in our non-winterized beach cottage on the Connecticut shore, having spent the last 5+ months cooped up in our Brooklyn home (Lucy was 7 months old and Zoe was starting 3rd grade remotely).
I was getting ready to turn 43, and the 2020 election was two months away.
I found myself staring at this wall hanging by Sugarboo & Co. and was suddenly inspired to create a blog series around it. We called it the More or Less Mondays Challenge.
Four years later, here I am — back at the same house this past weekend, and I find myself staring at the same wall hanging, remembering our now-7th-grader, Zoe, doing 3rd grade from a laptop in that living room, and our now-almost-5-year-old, Lucy, not talking yet and just learning to crawl.
And me? I just turned 47 on Monday (happy birthday to me!) and the 2024 election is less than two short months away. Gulp.
I selfishly wondered: do these posts still resonate? If I dust off this 16-week challenge, will they speak to us now, 4 years post-pandemic?
The answer? Yes! In fact, some of the messages even more so than before.
So, I’m going to share them with you again…
Introducing THE LESS & MORE SERIES!
Each week through the end of 2024, we'll post a pair of words on our Instagram, Blog, and Facebook.
We'll talk a little bit about the principle and offer a suggested action to take during the week — one that will hopefully help you to move away from the LESS column and plant firmly in the MORE column.
So much of what we do in both Private Coaching and The Creative Path Course, is about finding clarity before taking action.
What does your overall game plan look like and, more importantly, what does your next right step look like?
Join us in taking bite-sized, simple action steps for the coming weeks as we focus LESS on the qualities that are no longer serving us, and create MORE space for the ones that do. Reflecting on what’s changed since that wild time 4 years ago — and noticing what is still the same.
This first weeks’ theme is: Less Apathy / More Love.
It's no secret that apathy is incredibly dangerous; dangerous to our careers and personal relationships.
And perhaps more immediately — when it comes to events in our community and the world around us, apathy can make us complicit in the oppression and harm of others. And yet, with the inundation of daily doom-and-gloom headlines, apathy can still seem pretty attractive these days.
So how do we combat apathy when all we want to do is stick our head in the sand?
Here’s how: with proactive daily loving actions. More specifically, showing our love by showing up and staying in the conversation — especially when things are hard.
ACTION OF THE WEEK: Put love into practice.
It’s time to schedule the hard conversation you’ve been putting off.
We all have one — the family member you need to call, the boss or colleague you’ve been avoiding, or even the partner you’ve been meaning to sit down with.
Conquer apathy and show your love this week by getting the talk you’ve been dreading on the calendar, writing it down, and following through.
And before you have that talk, take a beat to remember why this person matters to you in the first place. Connect to one thing you love or have loved in the past about this person so you can stay connected to the purpose of showing up for this moment.
You got this!