Your Exploration Baseline

When you explore something new, you’re exploring relative to a previous baseline. When you explore a new diet, your baseline is your previous way of eating. When you explore a new travel-rich lifestyle, your baseline is your previous stay-at-home lifestyle. When you explore a new relationship and you weren’t in a relationship right before, your baseline is being single. Your default baseline is your normal, usual, routine, or expected experience in that particular area of life. Your baseline is your status quo. But does that have to be your baseline? If exploration is relative to your baseline, what would happen if you changed your baseline first? Moving Your Baseline We can compare the year 2020 to the previous baseline of 2019. That comparison will surely make the COVID situation stand out. We could also compare 2020 to the baseline of 2015, and that may serve to further highlight the political differences. And if we used 1943 as our baseline, the year 2020 might seem like a relatively quiet and peaceful year. It makes sense to interpret change relative to what came immediately before, but in the context of personal growth, you have the ability to change what comes before your explorations. You have the ability to redefine and establish new baselines. You can use your current circumstances as your point of reference for further exploration. But you also have the power to establish very different baselines and to use those as your ju...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Health Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs