BLOG
Confessions of a Life Coach
March 1, 2017
"When something goes wrong in your life, just yell, 'Plot twist!' and move on."
Joy of Dad (on Facebook)
I had the best of intentions at the start of the New Year.
- I had intended to streamline certain Inner Compass offerings. Check.
- I had intended to reorganize my home office. Half check - halfway done.
- I had intended to begin writing a book. Partial check for buying journals.
- I had intended to begin sending the Inner Compass newsletters on a bi-monthly basis, instead of monthly. Epic fail - apparently I wasn't specific enough with that intention, because I had meant to increase the frequency of the emails, not the other way around.
But I was also left wondering how that much time could have slipped past without my notice. During the first week of 2017, I made great progress and even helped my mom complete some projects before her scheduled surgery...and the next thing I knew, nearly two months had gone by and life was nowhere close to being "back to normal."
Life happens. Mom still hasn't returned home after her surgery; the full recovery that my family was expecting has since become a distant goal. And the question of the day becomes, "Now what?" How does one handle the everyday tasks of normal life when life seems anything but normal?
I've decided that it doesn't make sense to wait for life to become "normal" again before I begin writing the book, reorganizing the office, or sending the emails. If I want to walk my path with joy - if I am going to live a life that I love - I have to consciously live every day now.
So, I regroup. I review my original intentions from the New Year, clarify them, create new ones, re-prioritize everything, and begin anew. Or, as I recently posted in Facebook: "Plot twist! Plot twist! Plot twist!"
Life happens. Mom still hasn't returned home after her surgery; the full recovery that my family was expecting has since become a distant goal. And the question of the day becomes, "Now what?" How does one handle the everyday tasks of normal life when life seems anything but normal?
I've decided that it doesn't make sense to wait for life to become "normal" again before I begin writing the book, reorganizing the office, or sending the emails. If I want to walk my path with joy - if I am going to live a life that I love - I have to consciously live every day now.
So, I regroup. I review my original intentions from the New Year, clarify them, create new ones, re-prioritize everything, and begin anew. Or, as I recently posted in Facebook: "Plot twist! Plot twist! Plot twist!"