Whether you’ve got too much to do and not enough time, or you said the wrong thing to the wrong person…
Maybe you’re having financial troubles. It feels very serious to live from month to month.
There was a Part I with tips 1 through 5. Part I implies there would be a Part II — SO!
Here are tips 6 through 10, for you, for whenever the stress attacks.
I want to tell you a tale, a harrowing adventure that I had, just other day…
It was, life and death! What will happen NEXT?!
It involved a butterfly, moving vehicles, and a narrow escape.
I had a meeting with a restauranteur. I love food and restaurants and want to know more about actually doing that, so I met with this restauranteur guy, it was really fun.
I left happy and care free, I’ve literally never heard a human being speak so fast, however. Then, I got into my car.
I backed out of my parking space, and started to drive away….
[where the plot THICKENS]
… until! I noticed! There was a butterfly, clinging for life… on the hood of my car!
And for some reason, how butterflies are built, the butterfly couldn’t take off and fly away while I was moving.
And… I couldn’t stop the car! Too much traffic. flying everywhere!
I had cars behind me and in front of me, so I slowed to a crawl.
I was that annoying person in the parking lot that is driving so slow, she might as well have been driving backwards.
But… I am not going to accelerate and risk a butterfly’s demise, you know?
I have standards. And, priorities.
There was honking – everywhere.
Instead of speeding up, I just took the heat.
There’s a class I’m taking with Meadow Devour and Brooke Castillo on The Art of Self Coaching. I love it, and it hasn’t even *officially* started yet.
{Just forum lurking and playlist listening. Loving.}
A most fabulous poem at the beginning of our workbook… it’s really good, really true.
There is a lot to ponder in it. What’s most powerful to me is how much we can try to pigeon hole things, or categorize ourselves as a [this kind of] person — and we get trapped in how we think of everything.
But, we don’t have to be.
The small man
Builds cages for everyone
He
Knows.
While the sage,
Who has to duck his head
When the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long
For the
Beautiful
Rowdy
Prisoners.
– Hafiz
You can start your *thing* on the side and create it to fit your current lifestyle and schedule — and, ideal lifestyle and schedule — no matter what your situation is today.
And by, “no matter what your situation is,” I mean you could have a job or not have a job, have a life or need to get a life (been there — worth getting), rich or poor or WHATEVER. You can have a fun thing, on the side.
And, by “thing” I mean something you do, in the world, to make money, that is not the primary way you either make money, or spend your time.
The actually doing of it is really, really fun — especially when your thing on the side morphs into that thing you do, in the world.
Here’s how you can start your thing on the side, today.
The first step in starting your thing on the side is knowing what that thing might be.
© 2012 Laurie Gay