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#7 The Reset Button

  • Writer: Christian D'Andre
    Christian D'Andre
  • Aug 5, 2024
  • 3 min read

Updated: Feb 14

It can honestly be really tricky to pull yourself out of a rut. Even when you know things are a certain way, that doesn’t change the rhythm you have gotten yourself into. Last night I had to write down several times that I had no work the following day. Even now, I feel like I have a sense of dread whispering into my ear, saying that I will have to go back to that same IT office. Y’know, it almost feels like I’m about to wake up from a dream. I can’t fully register the fact that things are changing, or even that I’m free right now. And it has me wondering: how can I be intentional about smashing that reset button, and truly resetting myself for the things to come? 


Maybe it’s just different for me because I’m still in the same house and all, but I think the key is different specifics. By this, I mean having the same routines, but adding a twist. Maybe you go to a different movie theater. Maybe you rearrange the living room before watching TV. Maybe you go to a different gym for the same workout (or the same gym for a different workout.) Whatever it is, you don’t necessarily need to do everything new, just half-new. 


I say it like that for two reasons. The first is to make sure we alter something in our lives. We have to acknowledge that something isn’t the same. Those new experiences will help us embrace the change and keep the brain on its toes to think through some new ideas. It’s why people like vacations so much: they are times to get away from life as you know it and into something new to process. It has a way of flushing out the old patterns for a bit. Have you ever noticed that? That after a vacation, or even just a day of doing something new, you come back to the old and it feels oddly different? That’s because the brain has lived a little more, and changed from the experiences. 


The other reason I say “different specifics,” is because sometimes you aren’t sure how to enjoy these new things. It might just be me, but whenever I wind up doing something new, it’s basically just a reiteration of the old. I go to a different gym and do a similar workout. I go to a different movie theater and see whatever I was planning to see anyway. It may seem arbitrary, but it feels like enough of a difference to be fun for me. And I think sometimes, that’s all we really need. 


And, ultimately, what’s wrong with doing a little more of those same things we like doing? I know many people who like big fancy vacations to new and exotic places, but sometimes what you need is just to do the same dang workout at a different gym. Heck, maybe a week off means time to do some of those big things you have been wanting (or, perhaps, needing) to do. Maybe you have to get some work done on the car, or the kitchen needs some organizing. Time to reset can be time to get those things done too.


But I do think it’s important to be a little intentional about keeping things fresh. Maybe you go to bed a little later or enjoy a nice slow morning. Something should feel different so that it communicates to your body that things are, in fact, changing. This especially works when things used to be significantly different. Maybe your ex had a certain restaurant they didn’t like. Go there! Maybe your old job used to have you eating lunch right around noon. Eat later! Make some change that will go against the grain of your old life to make your body realize that things are really different now. 


For me, that one significant change is staying up later. Now, I’m not a huge night owl, but there has been something freeing about knowing I don’t have to worry about when I get up in the morning. That’s the moment when my body really clicks and starts to realize that we can go into vacation mode. Maybe part of it is the fact that I typically only push on my bedtime on the weekends, or the fact that I have had to get up nice and early all year. Either way, that’s what has worked for me.


So switch things up a little. Change your routine, go against your body’s natural rhythm, and take some time to truly reset. I pray you find your reset button, and that you find the means to truly refresh yourself through some change to your norms. 

Until next time

May Peace be your guide.


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