The Power of the Pivot
This morning started simply.
Coffee in hand, a beautiful Florida morning, the kind that almost asks you to slow down.
Instead of sitting in my usual spot on the patio, I took a walk through the yard and noticed something surprising: there were spaces my husband and I had worked hard to create… and yet, we rarely used them.
We had built beauty around us, but we weren’t really living in it.
And that’s when it hit me.
How often do we do that in life?
How often do we create something, build something, work hard for something, and then become so accustomed to maintaining it that we forget to actually live in it, experience it, and appreciate it?
That thought stayed with me.
And one word came to mind:
Pivot.
Not in a dramatic, burn-it-all-down kind of way. Not in a reckless way.
But in the kind of way that asks us to pay attention. To our surroundings.To our instincts. To the quiet nudges that tell us something may be ready to shift.
When I think about the last two decades of my life, pivot is a word that fits more than I realized.
I have pivoted through divorce, through new living arrangements, through single parenting, and through co-parenting. I have pivoted by letting go of circles of friends that had once been a big part of my life.
I have pivoted through dating, through new seasons of independence, through career changes, and through the scary leap of leaving something stable to build something of my own.
I have pivoted in love, in family, in identity, and in geography. From Idaho and Wyoming to Tampa, Florida. Into remarriage, into building a new home, into creating new friendships and new rhythms.
And here is what I have come to realize:
Pivoting is not failure.
Pivoting is not instability.
Pivoting is not losing your way.
Sometimes, pivoting is the most honest thing you can do.
There are seasons in life when staying the course is exactly right.
But there are also moments when life whispers:
“This no longer fits.”
Sometimes the pivot is external.
Sometimes it’s internal.
And often, it starts long before anyone else can see it.
Sometimes the pivot is as small as choosing a different place to sit with your coffee. Sometimes it is as big as choosing a different life.
What matters is that we do not ignore the invitation.
Growth asks us to loosen our grip on what is familiar so we can step into what is next.
It’s not always easy.
But it is often necessary.
Maybe the pivot is not always away from something.
Maybe sometimes it is toward:
Alignment
Peace
Joy
Courage
Toward a life that feels more lived than maintained.
So here is what I am asking myself:
Where have I gotten too comfortable with the familiar?
Where am I maintaining instead of experiencing?
Where is life nudging me to pay attention?
And what if the next pivot is not something to fear, but something to honor?
If This Resonates With You…
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