Reconnect . the . dots

Have you ever felt disconnected from something that you would like to be more connected to? In my experience, today's fast paced world where the months and years fly by (I cannot believe it has been approx 6 months since I have posted here!) - sometimes you need to slow down to reconnect the dots - enabling you to re-engage with something important which has begun to take second (third, fourth or even last) place.

Have you ever felt that way? I know I have on a number of levels...

I write this post on a day when I am so appreciative to have reconnected with a school friend who I had not seen for 15 years. That's right... 15 years, and yet, as it always is with true friends, we caught up on half a lifetime without skipping a beat.

This felt like reconnecting the dots... and it made me wonder how many aspects of our life sometimes feel like they re temporarily disconnected... and wonder whether we take active steps to re connect.

I know how it is... we get busy; we have way too many things to do; the days, weeks and years rush by; we feel exhausted; and other things tend to get in the way. However, as I emerge from the high of having reconnected some friendship dots in my life, I feel compelled to encourage you to:

• Call your mum, dad, sibling, friend living across the Atlantic, university buddy - whoever it is that you have been meaning to catch up with for awhile
• Spend a day with your phone switched off so you can focus entirely on a task which has been escaping you or a person you have been meaning to catch up with
• Put petty arguments you may have had aside and reach out to someone you miss
• Stop merely existing (i.e. living weekend to weekend)... and take specific, determined, no-nonsense steps to reconnect your values with your career aspirations and make moves to make a closer connection with your plans
• Tell someone you love that you love them. Yes they know it, but stating the obvious can further strengthen that connection

As we move into the last third of 2012, take the time to work out what dots you would like to reconnect which will make you look back at your year with appreciation and affection. Do also feel free to share what you decide to do in the comment boxes below... I'd love to hear all about it!