So here we are on the second day of 2021. I had a really good sleep last night and it was so peaceful. I woke up this morning feeling so refreshed and ready to take on the day.
I must say that this day has been super productive. I had to run out this morning for some errands and picked up lunch. Today was the first day my 11 year old tried Ramen, pork to be specific and he loved it!!! That's my boy!!
My little girl had Japanese wings and she loved it!! you go girl!. Its really nice to see them branch out of the pizza and chicken nuggets. I hope they really take after their mom in food taste.
So I read an interesting article about Ikea killing its beloved catalog. In the read, it said "[We have] therefore taken the emotional but rational decision to respectfully end the successful career of the IKEA catalog, both the print and digital versions-and look to the future with excitement."
What a great statement. Ikea's catalog has been very famous and successful and Ikea stated that its customers have changed the way they shop and the interest in the catalog has weakened since 2016 but it still produces the digital version.
What makes this a great statement are the words they used which is "emotional but rational decision". It literally stopped me on my tracks and I went back to read those words again and again.
As I did, I could not help but think how many of my decisions have been emotional but not rational. When I am emotionally charges, its always so hard to think rationally since I have a tendency to get wrapped up in the emotion and making rational decisions at that time is never easy.
But Ikea was also emotional about its decision and decided that it was the right way to go since their customers changed the way they shop so they had to go with the change to support their business. We can all learn to just feel the emotions but make the decision that will continue and push us forward. So as I was thinking about how would I apply this to myself, I thought about the questions that I would need to ask myself:
Will making this decision help me move forward with my life in a positive way?
What do I need to let go now that I am emotionally attached to but that's not giving me any "profit"?
How can I look at a situation and know to ask if I am learning anything from it anymore and growing from it? Is it stale?
What process do I need to put in place to know that this is best for [fill in the blank]?
These are some questions that will help me or hopefully you start thinking about making the "rational" decision. Taking the emotions and thinking about the whole situation will drive our next moves. It's okay to feel emotional but still make the rational decision.
One of the other things that Ikea said in the article was " the catalog as we know today, will not continue".. They are moving to the digital version and maybe even going back to printing it if necessary.
So here I am making this statement on this second day of the New Year, " the Monita as we know today will not be the same at year end". I am the same Monita deep down and will always be, just with a goal of a new Woman.
What about you? What rational decisions are you going to make?
May you be at peace and happy from my heart to yours.
Peace,
Monita
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