Tried to post a blog last night and it vanished.(Is this an Omen?)
I had proudly shown my blog to my son & his girlfriend and received feedback that challenged me. Firstly "How are people going to find you? (Dashed if I know) Oh I am just writing this for myself and using it as a way to commit to doing and reviewing. They didn't seem too impressed. I could feel my enthusiasm ebb as the conversation continued. What's tomorrows challenge? ( I've only just finished today's!) Believe it or not I woke at 3am pondering this question and still had not decided when I started my day. I know I will get my paperwork filed and completed. (anyway that was my goal for the week and I had managed to avoid it for the last few weeks!!!) Amazing how many excuses I can think of. I had even researched procrastination and set up a new filing system to support me and bought a new book called "Paper Flow" The amazing thing about change is that we sometimes have to ask ourselves some pretty tough questions. No wonder people get stuck doing what they have always done.
TODAY my Change challenge came to me and I didn't like it one bit. Not keeping on top of my paper work and accounts cost me 3 hrs of my time, self flagellation (yes we are our own harshest critics) and the humiliation of others discovering I was less than perfect.
So what have I learnt:
1.That when you embark on change you need to bounce back from disappointments, learn from what has happened and move on.
2. To really make changes I need to clear out the rubbish, the patterns of behaviour that don't work for me. So I guess I have my work cut out for me over the next 100 days- A CHANGE DETOX - Lets hope I loose weight- carrying this baggage around is truely exhausting.
I had proudly shown my blog to my son & his girlfriend and received feedback that challenged me. Firstly "How are people going to find you? (Dashed if I know) Oh I am just writing this for myself and using it as a way to commit to doing and reviewing. They didn't seem too impressed. I could feel my enthusiasm ebb as the conversation continued. What's tomorrows challenge? ( I've only just finished today's!) Believe it or not I woke at 3am pondering this question and still had not decided when I started my day. I know I will get my paperwork filed and completed. (anyway that was my goal for the week and I had managed to avoid it for the last few weeks!!!) Amazing how many excuses I can think of. I had even researched procrastination and set up a new filing system to support me and bought a new book called "Paper Flow" The amazing thing about change is that we sometimes have to ask ourselves some pretty tough questions. No wonder people get stuck doing what they have always done.
TODAY my Change challenge came to me and I didn't like it one bit. Not keeping on top of my paper work and accounts cost me 3 hrs of my time, self flagellation (yes we are our own harshest critics) and the humiliation of others discovering I was less than perfect.
So what have I learnt:
1.That when you embark on change you need to bounce back from disappointments, learn from what has happened and move on.
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