Journalist Ellen Goodman once shared this observation: “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for — in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”

Clever. But these words also prompt an opportunity to reflect.

Why do we do what we do? The puzzle that we’ve put together — does it make sense? Does it reflect the kind of life we’d like to live? Have we included pieces that are distractions rather than contributions?

Because we do have the ability to edit what’s become normal. And while rearranging, reconfiguring, and deleting might seem a little scary … it could also be thrillingly, satisfyingly transformational.