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Welcome to week 5 of Living with Chaos. Invite your friends to join here.
For the past four weeks, we've established that you have agency, acceptance is key, and feeling your feelings helps you move through chaos.
Now that you have ownership and are back in power in your life, today's strategy is about a fundamental choice.
Choose love, not fear. Every.single.time. That means love for yourself. Love for others. Love for strangers, and people you don't understand.
Fear seems so easy. Love requires you to be vulnerable. To perhaps look foolish. To admit that you don't know everything. To step into the unknown. Love is a stance you take toward the world and other people.
Here's an example: You get laid off. Love yourself enough to feel your feelings. Love yourself enough to give yourself time. Be confident in your future, however murky it looks. Love life enough to believe that this layoff might end up being the best thing that ever happened to you. Open your eyes and love the world so new opportunities come to you.
Fear looks like clinging to one vision of your future. Wallowing in your house for weeks. Fighting the decision. Rushing to anything else.
Love might be hard in the short term. It is definitely easier in the long term. And a much healthier way to live with chaos.