I've been quiet, but not intentionally... The big US trip and the subsequent catch up have kept me busy, and when I haven't been working I've been reacquainting myself with my sofa and my bed : )
Below is my Karen's World update from Successfully Raw today. As you'll read at the end I'm going to be recording details of the changes I'm making and what comes as a result of that. My intention is to be having a little more of the LBD times (see picture, left! - yes it was one of those taken in LA and well worth every effort!!) and less of the Karen-tied-to-her-computer times : )
Here's the article...
Times they are a changin’.
Yes, right now the world over it’s no secret that big things are afoot. You don’t need me to remind you that these are strange times we are living in, and nothing feels 100% certain – many are wondering what safety really is all about.
Since my trip to the US I am also part of that change. As mentioned in this week’s intro, I’ve been changing on the inside and the out. My clothes are different, my office is different, my way of doing things daily is different. There is more organisation, less hurry; more time out, less feeling chained to the computer; bigger projects planned to help many more people rather than focussing on just helping a few.
Some of these things are really tangible and visible now, others will take time to show up. I have flowers on my desk today, a massage booked for later and this week I get to see my son’s school play on a weekday afternoon. I feel so lucky to be able to manage my time in this way, but I’ve always qualified that with “well, that’s because I work so hard all the other hours of the day!” And it’s been true. For literally a decade I have worked morning, noon and night on what I do and still it’s never felt enough.
Why?
Because I know there is so much for me to do that every day feels like just a tiny part of my work has been done. I have often wondered just how long this is going to last! (As I’m sure you have if you’re self employed also!)
As for where this conversation is going!! My answer is: The same place all of us probably need to go – to doing less but helping more. I know for me, next year my offerings are mostly going to be geared towards helping hundreds of people at a time – there’s too much quality info resting here in my brain and I’m not reaching enough people with it. I also want to remember what it’s like to have a night off, to have the luxury of wondering what on earth to do!
Of course, all of this is really about making decisions, about being a stand for what we do want rather than what we don’t. When we know what we do want we can start to figure out ways to make that a reality - and then as if by magic new ideas and answers start to fall into our consciousness and our solutions soon become very clear.
The flip side to this is giving permission. For example, I’ve known for years that I needed to work less hours AND intellectually I knew ways I could make that happen, but did I do it? No! Why? Because I have got into such a pattern of working round the clock that I find it incredibly hard to just stop!
Moving forward into 2009 I want life to be very different. Correction – it WILL be very different. I have already made some big decisions that will help that become true, but also you will hear about a very different way of doing things that maybe you might like to model or adopt.
The first step is putting me first.
Now that’s a novel idea! Anyone else out there who'd like to commit to saying the same?
There'll be more to come, in fact this is part one of a series of updates on the bigger shifts I am making to change my life, starting from the inside out... Stay tuned!
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