OK, so it’s early June and I know that I have not been that motivated for a few months now. Is it procrastination or just that American Idol is now over and the Bachelorette is now on that’s kept me from focusing on practically everything and certainly everything physically active?
I mean other than weeding my several acres of gardens; I have basically done nothing for months. And this 49 and10/12’s body needs more than just bending at the waist to pull a weed to fit into a nice birthday outfit. 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 12-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 almost 20 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. 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 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 needs a bit of a tune up. I called a girlfriend last week to have her come over and go running with me. I haven’t really ran for several years. It was great. So I know for sure that I need a buddy when it comes to getting focused on fitness. What do you need to get and keep you focused? Seriously MOVE on something and let physics take you farther down the line.
PS: Don’t forget your sunscreen this summer.
Linda Edgecombe CSP
Author, Professional Speaker, Mom of Two, Wife of One and Passionate Gardener
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2 Comments until now
Well Linda, it sounds like you need a trip. Not a trip for business or speaking, but a regular, plain old trip. Try to go to a destination you have never been to before. Inspiration will come to you when you are there. It has a way of finding you when you are in a different setting/mind set…it always does.
Linda
You wear me out reading your homepage. Not in a bad way; It’s just that summer or what we expect is summer on the far east coast (we try not to be too excited about spring this far east) has all of us chomping at the bit.Two whole weeks of…ya usually 2 whole weeks..Digest that and get back to me…Well welcome to the east coast. Yah you can’t spend every day in your strap shirt but you put on a fleese and experience the culture. Isn’t that what Canada is all about?
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