"The breakdown is often just the tipping point that precedes the breakthrough, the moment a star implodes before it becomes a supernova."
This one above is one of the many excerpts I saved from "The Mountain Is You," a book about self-sabotage by Brianna Wiest. I found it yesterday while tidying up my notes scattered in a thousand notebooks.
When I came across those words, I remember how much they resonated with my experience. Many of my breakthroughs in life were initially disguised as breakdowns. As if I had first to break things apart so I could walk through them and move forward.
However, there's a caveat. Those words may make it look like the shift from breakdown to breakthrough is automatic.
It's not.
It doesn't just happen.
A breakdown can create the possibility to break through something that is holding you back or down. But to realize that possibility, you need to act. You need to step forward and through.
Only you can transform a breakdown into a breakthrough.
What works for me is to first acknowledge things as they are, change the words I use to describe my reality, and then start doing something different. That's the only way I found to step through the pieces of breakdowns and transform them into breakthroughs.
What one small step could you take today to begin transforming your current challenge into your next leap forward?