This last week has been wonderful. It’s consisted of:
- Signed up a new client for my Soul Navigator client – awesome!
- Found our next house-sit – fantastic!
- Completed an initial phase of a database cleanup for a client – phew!
- Sent off my entry in the Dare magazine 30 day writing challenge to a few people and received helpful feedback before submitting it this week – great!
- Met some wonderful people at the Network Central events – delightful!
- We found some clothes Danita had been missing for some months – terrific!
- The weather has cooled down considerably and the Sydney fire situation has eased – yayy!
- Received a replacement EFTPOS machine which reads the new embedded chip cards – very helpful!
These have been the main highlights. There are a number of other things we’ve completed and so this has been a week of significant progress.
The next house we’re staying in has just been sold. Here’s the ad. Not a bad place to stay for a few weeks – huh!
So how come I don’t feel ecstatic, elated, excited and bouncing out of my skin? With all these wonderful things going on shouldn’t I be much more excited?
Maybe it’s because I was seriously challenged getting to the Network Central evening event. It seemed like one of those cases of: ‘if something could go wrong it did’ and it was largely my doing. The event was held in the city and so the best way to get there was by motorbike. (We’re living in Glenorie and public transport is challenging at best.)
On the way in I was enjoying the ride, managed to miss the turnoffs and ended up on the completely wrong end of the city. I then (after some VERY SLOW crawling through peak hour traffic) managed to find a parking spot close to my destination. Actually, I’d got things wrong and the meeting wasn’t being held at the usual venue. I discovered that when I walked into the restaurant (thinking that the other people in the lift were gong to find that they’d arrived at a private event) to discover there was no event going on there.
Thanks to smart phones and email I found out where it was and carrying my helmet and heavy bike jacket arrived (on a very warm humid day) at the correct venue very hot and sweaty – just the way you want to present yourself at a business event.
Also, I ALWAYS wear a hat. My habit is to put on a hat whenever I leave the house. In this case I’d put on my helmet and had neglected to take my hat with me (I did have something on my head, after all). As soon as I walked into the event two people immediately said “where’s your hat?”
All this, in just one afternoon. I was very happy to blame it on Mercury being retrograde and it did turn out to be a fantastic experience. The speaker was Jackie Furey from Bedroom to Boardroom. She’s a psychologist who works a lot in anger management. (Is this a case of nominative determinism, do you think?) She’s a wonderful presenter – very funny and insightful – well worth catching up with her if you get the opportunity.
Anyway – getting back to the point – I was wondering if there is something wrong with me. All this great stuff going on and I wasn’t bouncing off the walls with excitement, doing high fives and punching the air.
I then started to think that maybe it’s OK to feel quietly contented and pleased. Feeling grateful and happy with the situation doesn’t need to involve lots of noise.
One of the things I find happening a lot in my work with my clients is that they get the insight that it’s OK to be themselves. The things they’d been thinking and wanting to do are right for them even though it might not be the way others have told them it should be.
I found myself hearing what I’d say to a client except this time it applied to me – and it was gratifying. So, I’ve finally decided it’s OK to be however you are. If you’re the type who gets exuberant and excited that’s great. But if you’re the sort of person who’s quiet and stable and likes to be peaceful – then that’s great too.
So long as you’re happy with who you are that’s the important thing.