“Things are going downhill fast!” That doesn’t sound very good does it? Then of course, “it’s all uphill” doesn’t sound very good either…. It’s all a matter of perspective. If you are a mountain climber then all uphill might sound pretty darn good. If you are at Disney Land on the Matterhorn then going downhill fast is the only way to go!
I have had a rollercoaster of a week…. There were way too many things on my to-do list but all of them good. The week started with a Living Social promotion, then classes, getting my pieces ready to go to the caster, meetings, a lunch date with a friend that I don’t see often. Then an opportunity came up to teach at JOGS during the gem show so of course I needed to rush and put together a proposal, I took a fabulous class with Fred Zweig and I’m working on an exciting new venture with my friend Kaitlin from Kaitlin’s Creative Cottage…….(no I can’t tell you what it is but as soon as we have details you will be the first to know!) Anyway, I guess what I am trying to say is that this week has been a wild ride full of ups and downs, twist and turns. It has been a hang on to your hat kind of week but oh boy what a ride! I could have been completely overwhelmed. If I had experienced a week like this a year ago I would have been annoyed and cursed my way through the entire thing. I would have been looking at my watch during lunch. I wouldn’t have enjoyed the class I took with Fred because I would have been thinking of all the things still undone on my to-do list. I would have only been marginally grateful for the opportunity to teach at the gem show because the timing of the offer wasn’t perfect. I wouldn’t have had the confidence to take on a new business venture; well you get the picture…. Somewhere along my path in life my perspective has a shifted…… I no longer see the glass as half empty. I don’t see it as half full either…there is still something just a bit contrary in me that wants to know, “What is in the Glass?”
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My imaginary glass is sooooo full that I’ve got to use a straw…and it’s a root beer float with those crazy little root beer & ice cream bubbles in a big iced mug! I know ‘zactly what you mean about perspective Marnie…I’ve been lamenting for YEARS about my ratty old carpet and ugly vinyl flooring and now that I’m FINALLY getting it torn out and replaced, and my plain old white walls painted a Southwest style rainbow of colors, I’m going crazy with the mess, the dust, the chaos of living out of boxes, cooking outside pretending I’m camping! I keep trying to picture how amazing every thing is going to look, how happy I will be to have invested in my nest, how the colors and the new rugs will cheer me up…but for the moment, it’s a ZOO around here…thank goodness I have this exciting new venture brewing in my soul and friends to share the ride on this crazy roller coaster of life with! Woooheeeeee…hold on tight!
The Quote at bottom of my weekly to-do list is by Deepak Chopra and it sounds like it must have been meant for you in the midst of your re-model….”All great changes are preceded by chaos.” ~Marnie