We have a somewhat compulsive relationship with email. I’m guilty of it for sure too.
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I have lots of skills, however, maintaining perspective is not one which hits my top ten list at the best of times; in a pandemic, I often feel like I have absolutely no perspective.
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It was just over a month ago that I wrote about a search for gratitude and optimism (Searching for Optimism and Gratitude). I (re)started a gratitude practice, although I committed do finding gratitude every single day, regardless of circumstances for the whole month of December. I’ve done the practice in the past, however, when I had a really hard day(s), I tended to drop it. The irony of that, though, is those were the days, I truly needed it.
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I love Michael J. Fox. I remember watching him as Alex P. Keaton in “Family Ties,” and being drawn to his character. As I became older, I loved “Back to the Future” and “Spin City” too. I read his first memoir, “Lucky Man” when it was released in 2002 and it solidified my admiration.
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We’re living in a Pinterest World
I was out recently and heard someone remark that we are living in a Pinterest world, and it made me stop and really think.
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When I was about 20, I was working out a camp. I had forty 9 – 12 year olds and we were on our third day of straight rain. We didn’t have a lot of indoor space and we had used up all our ideas about how to keep them occupied inside. I’m sure there were other challenges, but I was the director that week and ultimately, it all fell to me to solve.
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Pivoting is a skill; one which is getting tons of practice currently. It seems like we are constantly pivoting. In the middle of March, we did an about face as suddenly the world seemed to shut down. We lived through that, and in Alberta, we’ve been slowly reopening. Since then, it seems like things are constantly changing.
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Why is starting the hardest part? Staring at a blank page before you decide on the first words? Saving the first dollar? Making today the day you actually eat the salad and exercise, rather than saying, “I’ll start tomorrow”?
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It’s been a tough morning. And frankly, yesterday felt rough too. I sit under a cloud of sadness, longing and uncertainty and I feel myself falling into a funk. I knew I needed to write my rough draft of this post today so I would have time to review and edit it this week, but I did not feel like writing, nor did I know what to even write.
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I want to start by acknowledging that this blog post is one of the hardest I’ve written. My normal process is to write a rough draft one week and then edit and post it the following week. I sat down to edit what I wrote last week, and while the message is relevant (building trust), I believe that building connection is more pertinent to this crazy situation we all find ourselves in.
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A couple of weeks ago, I was mindlessly scrolling through my Facebook feed when a friend’s post caught my eye(I will call him, Peter - not his real name, but easier than constantly writing “my friend”).
Peter’s post read:
Ugh. Already late handing in an assignment and I just can’t get my fire lit. Help!
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It’s nearing the end of the first week of my Academic Writing and Critical Thinking course and I am starting to feel better about it.
The course started Monday and looking back at my text messages from that day, I can pull out a common theme that could best be summarized as “Crap. What did I sign up for?
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Embrace imperfection.
It seems like an odd phrase for a Type A control freak personality; for someone who is meticulous and wants things to be perfect. It has been a work in progress, and an important balance to that other precise side of me.
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Last year, my daughter’s teacher asked whose parents were coming to Parent Teacher Interviews and she raised her hand. As she does very well academically, he looked at her puzzled and asked, “Why?”
She responded, “Because my mother likes to talk to people.”
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A year and a half ago, I wrote an email to my boss and asked the question, “Are we doing anything to support our new team leads, or are we saying Congratulations and Good Luck?”
He wrote back, “No, but we should.”
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I am afraid of heights.
I feel like I need to take you back a few years to truly help you understand how much I do not like heights.
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