Coiling and Uncoiling

For the past few years, I’ve been spring-coiling.

That’s how I think of it, anyway: a focused process of assessing, experimenting, consolidating, retracting, refurbishing, replacing, upgrading, upskilling, scanning my personal, interpersonal, and professional horizons, and generally questioning every aspect of who I am, what I’m doing, and where I’d like to be as a next-step version of myself.

This stage, this state, isn’t unfamiliar territory; I’ve gone through this process more times tha...