Oh Baby, Baby It’s a Weird World – micro rituals for macro sanity

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Oh Baby, Baby It’s a Weird World – micro rituals for macro sanity

Greetings!

There’s no getting away from it. They are your monkeys, and it is your circus. The world has become something approximating a cosmic improv and we are the bystanders on the bleachers watching the juggernaut roar past.

There are AI actors, pop stars and models, sex robots are in production (guess which sex?), the economy is doing a Titanic and Saudis are building a ski resort in the desert. Oh, do keep up. Tough though, isn’t it?

While we may quip in our best Noel Coward blitheness “anything goes” it feels like what we once “got” is now gone. Increasingly people are finding it hard to know where to put themselves. The whiplash-causing news headlines, the uselessness of all political parties to do anything other than pass the baton of blame; the futility of investing in anything be it mortgages, marriages or magic pants.

As Michelle Obama once said, “when they go low we go high”. Let’s try - “when things get weird we get creative - or weirder” – your call. With the rule book thrown out it’s time to design some life edicts to create limpid pools of solace, safety and succour to slip into when the world has lost the plot.

Micro-Rituals for Macro Chaos

Take three breaths – one for your heart, one for your mind and one for your soul. Breathe in deeply to count of 5, exhale through mouth to count of 8 and concentrate on those three things in turn.

What’s Yours Isn’t Mine – check you stress levels and work out what is your stuff and what have you shouldered for somebody else or, heaven forbid, for the world itself. Put down the borrowed monkey.

Stuck is the New Change Ritual is the rebellion to numbness. Start creating daily rituals that will support you. I’ve taken up 15 minutes daily of Tai Chi on an app. What do you do?

Doodle – as antidote to doom scrolling (my new Acrylic Brush Markers are my go-to calm balm)

Mascot Mirror- when you see your reflection treat it look you were your own mascot – cheerleading, supportive, embarrassingly effusive. You are your No 1 fan. Mine is a giant white pussy cat with lipstick, a feather boa and heels. (I created my on AI)

What’s yours?

Share your mini escapes here so we can all dip in – email me.

Thanks to Leah and Margit who emailed me about last week’s “gratitude” newsletter.

Leah shares:

Here’s some of my gratitudes for today 😊

- waking up later than usual

- newly discovered miniature m&s kiwis!

- sunshine 'indian skies' in the morning

- Tulum vibes playlist (I looked it up – it’s great - Carole Ann)

- the balcony on this one-off summery day in Sept

- a positive email from a new client

- a friend sending a thoughtful voice note

- the prospect of getting my hair done

- reading your inspiring newsletter 🥰

Thank you, Leah.

Margit says:

3 things I'm grateful for today:

- Enjoying the view from my terrace with a cup of coffee in hand

- Taking a leisurely stroll through the lovely little town I live

- Sitting in the park, listening to the chirping of the birds in the trees

Beautiful, thank you. Please keep them coming, they are so heart warming.

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About Carole Ann Rice

Carole Ann is an award winning journalist, media consultant and high profile coach, with over 20 years' coaching experience with private clients and major organisations such as the London School of Economics and Play England.

She co-wrote Start Your Dream Business and Find Your Dream Job which are available from Amazon.

She is the winner of 'Best Coach' in the Best Business Women's Awards 2017.

She is also MD of the Pure Coaching Academy which is an accredited (IIC&M) 8 week life coach training course where she trains people to become world class coaches. It includes an inclusive coaching manual which is the handbook of any new life coach when starting out.

As her website boldly states "not just another life coach".

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