For me, this week has flown by. As I mentioned last week, I have a renewed energy around promoting my business. I have received some good coaching on how to be in public more. I am a fairly shy person, and talking to groups of people is uncomfortable to me. I am an outgoing and dynamic person in a one on one situation.
To help me feel more comfortable in public situations, I have attended several networking meetings, and I have 2 more this month. In two weeks, I will be presenting both my health coaching business and the Essante Organics business to a room full of women! This will be monumental for me. I am really working hard to get things ready to put my best foot forward. Tough decisions had to be made as to how much money I am going to spend on things like printing, samples, and look books. If I could do things how I wanted to, I would spend a small fortune. Believe me, I am praying that what I am doing will be enough to attract some attention.
I am so grateful for the amazing women I meet, and the wonderful opportunities I am having as a member of the NAPW (National Association of Professional Women). So much personal growth has occurred since I joined them. I believe that 2016 is going to be incredibly productive.
I have never been a person who likes change for the sake of change; I believe if it’s not broken, don’t try to fix it. When I own something, I generally keep it until it is no longer useful. I am like that with furniture, clothes, cars, etc. In the event that something is no longer useful and needs to be replaced, then I am all for making that change. When it comes to making changes within myself, I am more than a little resistant. I think most people are, though. Even when things get a little uncomfortable, I can tough it out.
But there comes a point in time, when I am willing to face the fact that growth cannot occur until I am tired of being stuck where I am, and ready to step out of my comfort zone. I hate being stuck. I hate illogical conversations. I hate it when people are being unreasonable. And I especially hate it when all of those things happen in my brain because I am afraid of change. I refuse to be a victim of myself. When I have reached my limit with my irrational self, I start paving the way for change. It’s still hard, and it’s still scary, but I am a force to be reckoned with, so change is going to happen.
I realize as I am writing this, that I could be accused of being a crazy person, or one who has multiple personalities. I assure you, I am neither of those things. I just hate being stagnant. Being productive is one of my driving forces. I love organization, productivity and personal growth. I sometimes have difficulty distinguishing between relaxing and being lazy. I don’t do either for very long.
This week’s post is a little short because most of what I have been doing is not very interesting. The animals have been rather ordinary, well. Actually, as I am sitting on my bed writing this, I can hear Coral, my orange and white cat, scratching on the glass of the French door. She wants to come in for a bite of people food, and a nice snooze in her cat bed. I don’t know where she learned to scratch on the door, but she has quite a technique. She stands on her hind feet and uses both of her front paws to rapidly scratch on the glass. She has good rhythm, too. She started doing this years ago. It turns out that cat claws will scratch glass, just in case you were wondering.
Well, I hope you weekend is wonderful; may it be all you want it to be. Drop me a comment if any of my writings resonate with you, I’d love to hear from you.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
