Drawing Breath
Up early this morning, lots to do.....
Have a half finished post............
How did the social that I posted last night get on?...........
Have I made any money?............
Have I grown?...............
Need to do more, need to grow.
I opened my laptop, logged on and the first thing that opened was my FB (Imust have not closed down properly last night). So I start reading my messages as I multi-task and start to open up the rest of my system.
It soon became apparent that today was anything but a good news day. At least half a dozen of my close friends had lost someone they cared about over the past weekend. The weekend that I had spent stuck procrastinating over my site, that I had spent frantically trying to generate more content, more, and then more again.
Obviously I spent some time and gathered my thoughts, and set about sending each of my friends a personal message conveying my sympathy and support for each of them. No not the usual FB rehash, or pre-prepared trash, but a very personal message to each.
In the process I began to breath, and slow down, and fall away from my dash for cash that had somehow overcome me in the past few days. I began to remember what brought me here, the need to be doing something constructive, the need to be participating with others. I began to remember why I had stuck in this community, the support, the training, the sense of achievement when a task was not only done, but done well. The support you receiev when you achieve that, and possibly more importantly the guidence that you receive when you fall short.
I sat back and relaxed, and remembered that what drew me here in the first place was the absolute honesty in the reverbarating statement of the community that this is not a race, it's not a sprint. It's not even a marathon,it's a process, an attitude, a lifestyle.
As I did this my anxiety decreased, as things got themselves put back into their proper perspective. To hell with struggling to build that post. To hell with drilling down into my figures. To hell with diagnosing my results. I've done all of that, they will read the same this morning as they did last night. Nothing dramatic will have changed, no futher, or diferent outcomes will have emerged. I knew weeks ago that I had a few little tweeks that I wanted to try, I knew back then that I wanted to take a look at my theme and have a tinker. But those cans had just benn kicked down the road because of more important stuff or so I had convinced myself.
If there is one thing that I have learned this morning it is to take a breath and remember that in many ways WA imitates life, in that if anything is worth doing, it is worth doing properly. If you want anything to mean anything you have to take your time and put all of yourself into it. That really is the only way that you make a lasting impression, the only way that what you do, the mark that you leave is important in any way. None of us are really here just to draw people in, more we are here to belong and the only way to do that is to become the community and interact and improve.
Life doesn't have it's lessons, life is a lesson.
Take your time, experience it, savour it, enjoy it.
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It's quite a lesson, too, isn't it? This slice of life called WA is such a great support community. And, yep, if we pay attention, it will teach us to do things well.
Loss often causes us to be relective and comtemplative of prioritization. Well said and thank you for your insights! There is nothing but wellness here in my opinion and helpful whether or not I ever make a living here, learning to live never stops. Warmest wishes. Truly
"in the process I began to breath"...
Love your post, for me, it has been -Brilliant morning therapy
Honor
Great lessons of life to keep learning from. I am currently seeking to adopt a growth mindset having discovered that I have spent much of my life living out of a fixed mindset which anchors you with all sorts of life limiting beliefs. Lets keep that learning mindset alive no matter what stage we are at in our lives.
Wow! Thank you for sharing that with all of us. I believe it helps us all grow to share our ups and downs that we go through in life, not just in business but personally as well. The end result is we all benefit from learning in more ways then one.
Your determination is amazing. It impacted me which I’m sure it has for others too. Thank you Adrian.
Renee
Very wise words. Thank you so much for the reflection and the reminder. I do get wrapped up in life, rush, and forget my initial reason of "why". It's good to take a breather, reflect, and be aware....
Great post Adrian some very wise words and I resonated with a lot of it
Especially this paragraph.........
"I sat back and relaxed, and remembered that what drew me here in the first place was the absolute honesty in the reverbarating statement of the community that this is not a race, it's not a sprint. It's not even a marathon, it's a process, an attitude, a lifestyle."
Thanks again for a great post!
Adrian,
I am so glad to have you back, I missed so much reading your
blog posts!
They inspire me to always do better, to slow down and make
sure that I am leaving my own mark upon my work.
You sir, are a true artist in your own way.
Thank you,
Susie ::))
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Kind of like stopping to smell the roses. It's ok if the little things wait for a moment, cause sometimes something else is a bit more important.
Thanks for the reminder