Sometimes talking about the thing that is most obvious is the hardest thing for me to talk about. There could be a big issue….the “elephant in the living room” …it could be a job change, an illness, a troubled relationship, or a conversation that may be hard in how we’ll have it. In some moments, I [...]
How Do You Do It?
I missed my risk entry this month. Totally missed it. Two days later, I noticed. This isn’t supposed to happen. I should be able to handle all my commitments. I don’t really have all that many. I’ve pared down to the minimum. There’s the kid — enough said about that — and then there’s the [...]
It’s not me, it’s you.
I went to see a consultant whose job it is, through her employment at a state organization, to advise small business owners on marketing and other business building strategies. I had worked with her previously, much earlier in my process of becoming an entrepreneur. At the time, I didn’t get much value from the interactions, but I chalked it up to one of several things: how “green” I was, what an unprepared client I was, or something to that effect. In other words, I made it my fault. When I went back to see her, being anything but green, I was hoping for a better result. However, at the end of our most recent interaction, I felt even less assisted than last time. And, to say the least, I felt more frustrated and misunderstood.
Grow
My job over the past year has been full of growth and learning brand new skills – I am building computer based learning classes and am learning how to use video and other media to be creative and interactive. Last week, I was given an award of ‘excellence’ at work for the online classes I [...]
Water Wings & Cheerleaders
My usual blog day is the 15th, and my last entry was titled Swim or Sink. At that time, I was curled up in a fetal position, drifting in an ocean of tension and distress, depressed, terrified, lonely, and feeling my available choices were really no choices at all. Afraid of drowning emotionally, I reached [...]
Moving Mountains
At my age, I’ve done most of my big risking. (Although writing monthly blogs is a hug risk for me!) I get it that I still take risks every day but probably the biggest risks I’ll ever take, have been taken. I was driving just the other day and listening to a new Celtic Women [...]
So Many Changes – Update
It is amazing to realize that it has only been one month since I last wrote about the many changes I was determined to make in my life – changes that would effect my life from center to circumference. The basic update is that I did sign the lease on my new art studio. My [...]
Failing or Succeeding
The end of a regular paycheck is nearing. At the end of this month I will no longer have an employer but will be working for myself making pottery and building websites.
Today I Take These Risks
I have taken many risks. I have both celebrated and suffered the consequences of my actions. At this point in my life, the stakes seem so much higher, and the risks frighten me. To be true to my essence, I am convinced that these are risks I must take. Why today? I put everything else [...]
Rebooting a Love Affair
How very fitting that I should be submitting my February risk on Valentine’s Day, for the risk I am taking now is in returning to a relationship that ended in 2008. And not just any ending, I might add, but a spectacular flame-out, the details of which I am too embarrassed to describe here except [...]
