What To Do After You Receive A Wake-Up Call

Whilst the signs are not always clear that something needs to change in your life, they are almost always there, and if they are not heeded they have a tendency to get louder and louder.

Most people either have or will experience a wake-up call at some point in their lives, and whilst sometimes the circumstances for which you missed the signs can be understood, once that alarm starts blaring, it is a conscious choice to make a change in your lives or ignore it.

By definition, wakeup calls are rarely ever subtle; they can be a health scare that changes your life, the major destructive moment that fundamentally fractures a career, or the devastating breakup that shakes your foundations.

Whilst the early warning signs might not always be obvious, the actual wake-up call will be loud and can in the moment feel absolutely devastating, like your world has been completely upended.

It is okay to feel scared. It is okay to feel sad. It is okay to feel angry. It is okay to feel any extreme emotion you are going to feel in those first painful moments. It is what you do afterwards that matters.

Whilst you can technically choose to continue to ignore the wakeup call in your life and try to live 

the way you were, but this is almost always a struggle against the inevitable, and the sooner you accept that you need to radically readjust, the stronger you will be out of it.

Whilst a wake-up call takes away your ability to cling to the status quo and all of the dependencies and habits that have formed a defence mechanism, what they are replaced with is clarity.

It is generally clear what you need to do next and what needs to change, but never feel you need to handle it alone. Seek out your support network and bespoke coaching services to give you the motivation to take on and thrive in this new world.