1696: A more truthful way of looking at new chapters
As we enter a new season, and as I personally enter a big new chapter, I’m sharing a reminder I think both of us need to hear.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. So I am now moved into my flat in Liverpool, and it is the start of a new chapter for me, and I thought it would be interesting and maybe helpful to talk a bit about new chapters. Because I think so much of what we hear in the personal development world and the self-help world about new chapters is actually talking about starting a new book. It's this idea that you can start afresh, completely from scratch, that you are starting completely over, and while at times that can feel, and it can be very alluring, it's also not necessarily true. Because your story is part of a book, and new chapters are literally just that— new chapters within that book. And I think to completely give up on the book and start another one isn't really honouring past you, and all the fucking hard work you've done, and everything you did to get to where you are now, even if where you are now isn't where you want to end up. You have so much hard-won wisdom. You also have so many fabulous stories, and your book gets to be tattered and written on and thrown in a bag.
It does not always have to look like you just came out of Waterstones. I think one of the things that we can do when we start a new chapter is pretend like nothing happened before then, and I think that that really does erase So much inner wisdom, because you have so many lessons that you've already learned that you could take forward that would probably help you more than any self-help bestseller could. As I'm starting my own new chapter, I am having to remind myself of this constantly, and I'm having to remind myself that it has to be imperfect because it will be imperfect, and actually to declare myself a whole new woman is not only factually incorrect, but it also does pass me a huge disservice. So as we enter a new season and maybe you're thinking about seasonal routines, things that you wanted to start, or as we're coming to the end of the year, maybe you're thinking about projects that you want to take on or different challenges you want to set yourself, remember that you do not need to be a whole new person to do them, and you don't need a different book. Yes, you might need a new chapter, and you can have a lot of fun writing that chapter, but you don't have to, and you probably shouldn't throw out the whole book. So here's to continuing to work on ourselves imperfectly. If you want to really embrace the season, you might want to check out my Rebel Cosy Club that I'm starting this Thursday. There's more about that in the show notes, and you can go to therebelrousers.com/cosyclub, and I can't wait to be back with you tomorrow. Have a good one.
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