I was at a party over Christmas when i got into a conversation about what i did for a living.Now since returning from overseas last summer, i have been working part time in an area i would rather not be. I no longer saw myself in that role, and really quite resented having to work two days a week doing something i saw myself as having moved on from.This was despite the fact that the role is very different to my past one, i can more or less choose the days that i work, and can do the work with ease.
It occurred to me as we were talking, that from where the person i was talking to was standing, i had been handed a gift. In fact, those were the words which i used as i described my situation.They just fell out of my mouth as i was talking-i started to describe what i did, and it struck me what i actually had....
Setting up my Coaching business would always have meant having to do something else part time for a while.This job, the one i had sleepless nights over at the beginning, had actually allowed me to persue the very lifestyle i longed for, and provided the luxury of not only time, but meeting the vision i had for my future, the very vision i had created and described in a journal, months before.It also paid the mortgage while my husband and i settled back into life in the UK after years overseas.
'Creativity, flexibility, variety and freedom...that is my daily working life.' Those were the words i had written; i've just been to check them. As i talked to my friend at the party, it came flooding to me that i possesed all those things in abundance. Every morning i get to wake up and do something different; i have five days a week where i have to be nowhere except where i choose to be, and i can arrange the working pattern of my day.The other two days, i work in a job where i am well paid, respected and make a difference.I am free to get my coaching business off the ground, develop my website and spend time on my crafting business too.
Looking at my life differently, i realised how grateful and lucky i am to be where i am now. It struck me how powerful it can be to reframe a situation, and examine things from a different angle.When i was wallowing in self pity, all i had needed to do was to appreciate what i had. Simple. Make a list of the positives and just say thank you.Choose to be grateful.
I asked for a gratitude journal for Christmas, and the first difference this week will be to start filling it in.Every day.
Indeed, you are lucky. Use your time well.
ReplyDeleteCracking first post by the way.