Was asked by a friend the other day about what I get the most reaction to on social media and my newsletter.
My lowlights quite frankly get a far bigger pop than my highlights.
It’s easy to show the highlights.
I have a lot to be grateful for. I have things in my life that I can certainly highlight and always strive to accentuate the positive.
But the reality is there are just as many lowlights, if not more, and what you don’t see and what is not always shown are the stresses, losses, anxieties, trials, tribulations, and realities of life that fall between the highlights and make up the majority of the time.
I intend to let you guys in on more of these moments.
I think it’s really important to not only show your best moments.
Part of maximizing middle age or any age or stage for that matter is being able to work through the low moments. To own them and to share them as unapologetically as you share the highlight reel.
So when you see me in my best shape physically, consider that I may be feeling my worst and overcompensating.
Or that often when I’m a little less in shape I’m likely much happier overall and things are going better in a lot of other areas.
Maybe I’ll even make “Between The Highlights” a regular feature on the newsletter & pod.
A place where I can share what’s not working. That’s where you really learn and grow. From the mistakes, the failures, the rejections, the decisions and choices that you made that weren’t so good. It’s what you do from there that really matters.
Because it’s exhausting to just see highlights. I can’t keep up with my own and certainly can’t keep up with scrolling thru multiple people’s highlights and thinking that’s good for my sanity and well-being…
I want to talk about it.
I want to write about it.
Let’s spend more time between the highlights.
In (Men)tal Health – G
