My Nugget: And Breathe!
The past two weeks have been crazy and out of routine. Tuesday last week I spent a day out at at a golf club in Stratford upon Avon with my mindset coach and fellow coaches. We were all there to find out how we qualify for the next level of our holistic mindset coaching certification, so we were there to see what was involved.
Thursday during my normal visit to Dad at the care home, I called my brother so we could have a family chat as we often do. This was when he’d confessed he’d been hoping the excruciating pain in his foot would go away, but it had not gone after 5 long weeks. He couldn’t put any weight on it, he couldn’t drive, AND he was about to start a new job! I ended up volunteering to be chauffeur and promptly drove to my brother’s 40 minutes away and whisked him off to A&E. As expected we had a looooong wait there. He thought it was a fracture, it wasn’t. He now knows what it is and has the right treatment so he can start his new job.
Friday & Saturday I knew we had planned to go down to Surrey to stay and celebrate one of my oldest & bestest friend’s 50th. I had everything packed and ready, cat sitter organised, gave the cats their midday snack and noticed Scoots was limping and not so enthusiastic about his food. Another prompt whisking of cat this time to the vets. One antibiotic jab and one painkiller jab later he’s feeling better, looking less sorry for himself and off we trundle off to Surrey (finally).
During all this, I notice myself getting annoyed and frustrated at NOT having enough time to do all the things I had set out to do that week. I was stressing about not having had the time to film a new reel and putting it out on social media. Lucky for me, I spotted that thought and swiftly dealt with it so that I did not descend into ‘we’re veering off into overwhelm mode’ scenario. I paused, slowed down and took a breath in, then I had a word with myself. It kinda went like this:
’So what if you don’t get a reel done? The world won’t end, no one’s going to die, it’s going to be OKAY.’ This is one of things I say to myself to put things into perspective. By the way, I find talking to parts of myself a super effective way to get some sensible answers, it helps to get the ego back on board and stop it kicking your butt (if you don’t believe me, ask the hubby). I started to feel much less annoyed and overwhelmed and started to look forward to spending time with my friend instead.
As the hubby was driving the car down to Surrey I was feeling more relaxed and suddenly thought, actually, I could put together a reel right now. I could go back into may recent recording of me teaching in class and use the material there to create a reel. This reel ended up with getting the most views of my recent posts. Just goes to show, you CAN slow down and still get the important stuff done, and it would probably be better and you’d feel better too.