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Are you a Gump? OK, so it's mid June and I know that I have not had an article out in at least 6 weeks. Is it procrastination or just that the OILERS made it to the 7th game of the Stanley Cup playoffs that's kept me from focusing on practically everything. I mean other than weeding my several acres of gardens; I have basically done nothing for months. I know all too well that what we put out there we get back. It's basic physics; I talk about it all the time as a presenter. I've written about often in the past. I experienced it again this weekend at my 11-year-old daughter's fastball tournament. The more I sat there for 8 hours straight, the more I sat there. I was flip'n exhausted by the end of that day, and I had done not one thing that required energy, well other than cheer and reach into my backpack for more snacks. Procrastination for me is a way of not looking at what I really want to, let alone need to look at in my life. It's like putting a towel over every mirror in the house so I don't have to really look at myself. And when there's nothing to face, then no decisions are required. Truthfully, I am at a cross roads in my career. I have been a full time speaker for the past 16 years and love being in front of groups. To me there is nothing better than getting people laughing to the point that time just flies for them. However, I have found that the travel to and from the places I go to speak has worn me out. I keep thinking and even more, feeling like some big change for me is coming. I open my computer and expect some revelation to appear through my emails. But seens how that's not happening fast enough for me. I was reminded of some sage advise I had given one of my sisters a while back, as she dished it out to me; that in order for doors to open up for us, some have to be closed. But which ones? Now there's the question I need to look at, so I have decided to investigate getting some coaching. Some focus and hopefully some good guiding questions to get me moving in a direction that inspires me. So enough about me, what are you doing these days to keep your inspirations alive? Are you focused or just doing what I call "gumping" Remember Forest Gump? He, like the feather in the beginning and end of the movie, just floated from one thing to the next and made due where ever he or it landed. Now that's me for sure, I've been gumping. I wonder how long one can gump for until its time to snap out of it. Now I don't know about you, but I have been a very driven woman pretty much all of my life and find my drive has driven away, so I'm having some guilt around that. Perhaps I should McGuire for a while, now he had drive. Or Bond or Joleen, now that woman even hauls her kids around a third world country while doing good for the world. That really sounds exhausting, I should probably save up my next professional team, The Eskimos. Have I ever told you all how much I love Canadian Football? You see; I can't even focus long enough to get through this article. So here's what I propose to you, as I pursue some focused coaching, I will send you updates on the process and if you want to take the "Virtual Coaching Challenge" with me, we can keep each other on track. I will send you some pointed questions to ponder and you can email your answers back to me. We might really be onto something here. And bonus for you, because I will be the one paying for the coaching. You can live/be coached vicariously through me.
So for today, it's back to gardening, as I think I can hear those weeds stretching to the sky. PS: Don't forget your sunscreen this summer. Linda Edgecombe CSP |