Now you have.
(And yes, Mum approved of the new look 😅)
You see — at the start of each year, Maddy (my partner) and I undertake a process called:
Grand Master Planning.
It's a life mastery process that prompts you to answer dozens of questions across all 7 major areas of your life.
And it's tough work.
It forces us to snap out of auto-pilot and deeply reflect, discuss, and decide in what direction to take our lives.
Q55 under the Health section reads as:
My response to this question is usually along the lines of:
"I'm a-OK and love it as it is"
But when I completed my latest edition, I didn't feel like providing that response again.
I was feeling an itch to evolve.
Or "reinvent" myself.
Even though we'd returned to the same house we lived in before.
...we felt that something was different.
We were different.
And how we viewed ourselves was different.
So similar to how artists continue to evolve across their careers.
I knew it was time for me to do the same.
After an hour of Pinterest mood boarding for "Blonde curly afro" inspo.
And a hair colourist referral from my barber.
I locked in an appointment with Tyrone.
And after ~3 hours of 3 rounds of application.
(And a scalp that was tingling from the bleach)
I came out feeling — same, same...but different :)
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...
— Dr. Maxwell Maltz, author of Psycho-Cybernetics
This quote helps me re-orient whenever I'm entering a new season of life.
Rather than solely focusing on what I need to "do".
I instead focus on who I need to be.
Be → Do → Have
Because your own self-image is a powerful compass that'll guide you on the "do"-ing.
So I'll leave you to ponder this:
Who do I want to be?
What does that version of you look like? What would they do differently? How would they show up?
Sometimes the external shift — the hair, the wardrobe, the environment — is just the mirror reflecting an internal evolution that's already underway.
Mamba