Isn’t that the way of things? When we’ve been doing the same thing for so long, or putting things on hold until “later,” it can be hard to switch gears, even if those gears are the ones we’ve been dreaming of.

I go back and forth between goal setting and non-attachment. The conflict that this creates is frustrating and sometimes even painful. It can be so easy to fall into the habit of setting goals because I want things to be different than they are - that things should be better, or more, or… At it’s root, I want to feel some semblance of control. But the trouble with goals is that it can breed a sense of lacking. It can, at least for me, foster a feeling that what I have isn’t enough, and begs me to take control. So is goal setting damaging to our psyche? Should we stop…

Burnout may be the tagline for Millennial’s, but I never thought about how it would affect the world during a global pandemic. That is, not until it happened. But there is a bright side to pandemic-induced burnout.