Finding your Life Patterns
Posted on November 15, 2012 by Elaine Bayless, One of Thousands of Christian Coaches on Noomii.
How you do one thing is how you do everything!
What is a fractal? It is a image made of smaller identical images. When you zoom into a fractal, the image you see is the same as the image when you zoom out. Think of broccoli, or craters, or snowflakes. And according to Kaylee Masury, a contributor to the O Magazine list of 101 pieces of advice, our habits are fractal in nature. She says: “How you do anything is how you do everything." What does this mean? It means that you can gain self-knowledge by examining your life at a micro scale. By looking at how you treat the small situations of life you can learn about how you handle the large situations. This can be very helpful as we approach the season of feasting and resolutions.
How do you deal with your clean laundry? Do you fold it meticulously and put it away immediately? Do you leave it in nice clean heaps in laundry baskets? Do you fold it in fits and starts? I fold it fairly meticulously, but putting it away happens in fits and starts. I find this pattern repeated in other areas of my life: I tend to details with great attention, but overall projects are dealt with on a choppy timeline: hours of dedicated work are followed by days of neglect. When I write a story, I spend hours crafting a sentence, or editing, but the overall story might or might not be finished in one session.
Look at the small patterns in your life and then see how they play out into the bigger scope of your life path. The self-awareness you gain can help tremendously as you seek to be successful in this holiday season and in the new year.
