Transitions Aren't Always Easy

byTJCannefax

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5 years ago

Unexpected Transtion

When joining Wealthy Affiliates in April of this year I started out strong and I thought to myself, " This is going to really go smoothly." I was getting up every morning and checking my email. Doing my training was easy and enjoyable. About 8 weeks ago I hit transition in my schedule. I was asked to take in my beautiful granddaughter because her parents had to move to a different town before school got out for the summer. Seven weeks before school would be out to be exact.

I wasn't expecting that and although I love spending time with her I wasn't mentally prepared for the full time schedule that it was going entail. She would be going to visit her parents on the weekends. I had to wrap my mind around going back into mom mode and not grandma mode.

It meant getting up at same time every morning to get her to the bus stop so her routine was the same and picking her up and the end of the day at the bus stop. Setting my phone alarm so I wouldn't be late to pick her up was a must, as many times I would be on my computer or doing something else. I wasn't use to being responsible for an 8-year old full time. Going to her parent/teacher conference, other meetings for her because her parents couldn't make it was also on my schedule and her class field day.

Starting a training and trying to do some research for an article with having to stop to take care of other things have made a training last a bit longer than I anticipated. Sometimes I would be writing and my thoughts would be flowing nicely and I'd have to stop to pick up my granddaughter. This was hard because I would have a hard time getting back into my thoughts on my article when starting to work on my writing it again.

Training and article writing was taking longer than I had on my original goals list and I was having a hard time accepting the juggling of my new schedule of playing the mom role when I really wanted to do my own thing and dive into my new-found training and learning at WA. I had mentioned it on a couple of comments here at WA and I received very positive feed back that was quite encouraging and helped me to take a deep breath and step back and accept my current role

Acceptance

I had mentioned my not being as far along in my training as I would like to be because of unexpected circumstances on a comment in reply to someone and their reply was very encouraging. It inspired and reminded me to step back and accept my current situation and realize it was only temporary and that I can go at my own pace and I was the only one putting pressure on myself. Thinking about it that way I took the pressure off of myself. I was still reading my emails as much as I could and trying to respond and reading some blogs so I was still connecting daily with WA.

Transition And Moving

School is out for the summer and my granddaughter is back with her parents. Strangely enough I felt really lost her first few days gone. I felt quite lonely and sad. I was so busy with that schedule and when she was gone after two and half months it was too calm. Funny how that is. I now have to regroup into the way it was before she came.

I am also packing and moving. It isn't far but still a job and a change. Change can be exciting or a challenge. For me it is a little challenging. It does disrupt my schedule a bit and I have to process it and then I am great and go with it just fine.

I will get settled and get myself organized and the internet will be hooked up soon and I will be able to get back to my training on my regular schedule.