This past weekend I engaged in one of my favorite activities as a beekeeper. I got to catch a swarm of bees.

If you haven’t seen it before, it’s wild. About half of the bees leave with a queen and set up somewhere temporarily while they’re looking for their new permanent home. In the case of this weekend, it was in the branches of a cedar tree. It’s my opportunity as a beekeeper to go put a box or a hive underneath them and try to entice them to go in before they fly away.

It looked really chaotic for a while.

Eventually they settled in. And now they have more room to grow and thrive in their new environment.

The experience always reminds me that sometimes we need to do the same. When our focus is frayed, when our motivation is gone, when we feel stuck, the answer isn’t always to push and then push even harder. Sometimes it’s to disrupt ourselves. Not recklessly but with intention, like the bees.

If you’re in that place right now, here are three ways to “swarm your status quo” and reset your focus.

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