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Ten years ago I wrote this post about pivot points. Pivot points are conscious decisions about how to live your life differently. Examples could be quitting alcohol or drugs, leaving a toxic relationship, resigning from an unfulfilling job, starting your dream career, or changing the way you interact with people so that you’re not constantly giving away your power and making yourself smaller.

Rereading that post, I realized that I’d made another pivot point. What I had intended to be a one year experiment turned out to be a permanent change.

There are times when we’re ready to change. We run a particular pattern for years, even decades, and then, suddenly, we’re done with it. We’re ready to try something else. We have no idea if or how the new way will work, but we know we’re done with the old way, and there’s no going back.

Pivot points.

Me, 12 years old, in my first year of junior high. I was hanging on to my old crowd of friends from elementary school, but I was on the periphery, and being driven out. I was the whipping boy. My “friends” slammed my locker closed, made fun of my clothes (Sears “Toughskins” jeans — anybody remember those?) and were generally shitty to me. Finally, one of them figured out my locker combination and stole one of my textbooks.

The next morning I approached my “group” and said, in short, “You guys used to be my friends, but you’ve been treating me really badly. If that’s how you’re going to treat me, I don’t want to hang out with you anymore.”

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Ten Years Later, a New Pivot Point

Pivot Points — When You're Done Being Broken

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Ten Years Later, a New Pivot Point

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Pivot Points — When You're Done Being Broken

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