Monday morning again! I face it with a strong list of things to do. And 2 coffees.
In my business, we are marketing a new product. Currently full-scale in client contact outreach to introduce it. Three of us "selling" updated each other last Thursday -- conference call via my mobile phone while I sat on a train that left 10 minutes later for Milan (technology is amazing these days). We wish we could make faster progress -- people on holiday this week (ski break for schools here), in meetings, too busy, etc. etc.
I constantly remind myself that I am enjoying the days as much as ever in my life and that the goal is, in fact, just that: to live all days and not just for work.
In 2003, when I started the whole change that led me to today, I wrestled with much deeper stress over my father's death and my own disappointments. Uncertainty about how my future would work out...did I take a stupid leap out of a 16-year career or was I really on the right track? I wrote then, "I kept taking that next step. Meeting the next new person. Reading the next assignment."
I look where I am today, four years later. My own business. Lots of new experience. Living in a place I genuinely love. Keeps it all in better perspective. Short-term anxiety and self-doubt be banished...the beauty of change and learning and living for me has proven to be the way I feel when, somehow, finding the strength and the faith to take the next little step in the direction of something I value. It comes easier some days than others, of course. And can get lost in the busy-ness that turns so-called-beauty to stress.
I am going to try to take my own 2003 advice this week. :-) Next!
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