DO YOU EVER FEEL OVERWHELMED?

Do you ever feel overwhelmed? Have you thought that you know that something needs to be done but that you just can't bring yourself to do it?

It becomes easy once you can break it down into small manageable bites.

I have been overwhelmed trying to get Evolve to Live to fly. There always seems to be so many moving parts. I hired a business coach and we've made progress but it seems like it's one step forward and a whole slue back!

I was talking with my friend today and she reminded me of a time we were together and she wanted to clean out her linen closet. She kept insisting that it would take days and I kept insisting, it would take ten minutes. All you have to do is start!

In a situation like that, you have to take everything out before you can put it back in. It's worse before it's better.

On my drive to Southern California, in my white car, the place I get clarity and ideas, I got the brainy idea to hire Pati Hope as the General Manager of Evolve to Live. I mean really, who better to do the job. She is organized, believes in the products and loves people! I even went so far as to write her an official letter as to why she was the best person for the job! (Too bad we can't pay her, YET!)

I gave her a list of the departments that she would be managing and she was to hire the best person for each department. (ME!) She was to have them each work one day a week. She was to meet with them and together they were to decide what the jobs they were to perform on their day in the office.

The subdivisions were (the products and services ETL offers) Sessions/Playshops/Energetic Wellness, stuff like that. Anyway, what that did for me was to break things down so that each division had their time on the top. The GM, still has the business coach to help keep her on track!

Don't know if this helps, but just thought that I would pass it along....Just do it!

PERSPECTIVES

One of the key things that I talk about in many of my Evolve to Live Playshops (Self-Discovery through play!) is perspective or point of view.

Like ass-holes, everyone has one! Everyone has one and it's very likely different than yours. 

It doesn't mean that it is right or it's wrong, better or worse, just different! 

I looked up the word perspective in the dictionary:

the state of one's ideas, the fact's known to one. I thought that it was interesting, the state of one's ideas or the fact's known to one. They kept using the word one's ideas or the fact's known to one. Every- one is different! 

I was cracking up yesterday as I was helping my sister and brother-in-law do some weeding at the side of their house. We all three had a different point of view of the best way to accomplish the task. The area was full of crab grass, very tall, thick, crab grass. The night before my sister and I had decided a weed wacker would be the best approach. A friend gave us one, a little baby one, which did very little.

When I arrived the next morning, my sister was using hand clippers, very clearly not working too well either.

So I began using brute force, just pull those suckers out at the roots! (These weeds were over waist high). 

My brother-in-law came out with his lawn mower! I had to laugh as I listened while my sister tried to tell him how to try cutting it another way.

While pulling, I reflected, we were all doing the same job, getting the same results but we were all doing it from our own point of view, from our personal experience of how it has worked best for us in the past or from an idea about how it could work this time. 

I think that it's important that we allow ourselves and others the opportunity to do things the way that each of us as individuals see fit. However, I also think that it is equally important that we communicate with each other about how we are doing things. 

When we can communicate without fear of rejection or ridicule, it brings enlightenment to both sides of the fence, each person can learn and grow. Each person can contribute without conflict or irritation.

Using team work, we were able to accomplish a job that had just been neglected because the project was overwhelming for one person to do alone. And by us all working together, doing our own thing, the end result was a fun morning and beautiful side yard and about 10 large bags of weed clippings! (It will be interesting to see the different perspectives on what the best way to dispose of it are:) 

LITTLE DOGGIE AND FOOD FEEDING GRANDMA!

For the past week, I've watched the grandma that I'm staying with be in constant worry about the eating habits of the little doggie staying with us. It's been nearly a week that we've all been together and I've had strict instructions from the parents not to feed the dog from the table. 

Yeah, well try to tell that to an eighty-eight year old grandma from India that doesn't speak english! 

Even though they have called and told her over the phone, grandma doesn't care. It's in her blood! She has to share everything and make sure everyone who comes around is fed! 

Grandma eats a pancake for breakfast and dinner which she makes for herself. The pancake is made up of something like dried bean meal and flour. Little doggie got pancakes for the first few days. Then little doggie got bored and wasn't eating the pancakes any longer. Next thing I know, little doggie is drinking tea and milk from a bowl! Lord have mercy! Now grandma is trying to entice her with grapes, banana and rice.

My sister told me grapes are not good for dogs...tell grandma! We're out of grapes! Great, now she's feeding her cookies and this morning I noticed she opened a new package to feed her! I can't watch! 

(I am monitoring little doggie and she seems happy and is pooping and peeing...she's doing ok!)

In the meantime, the parents are calling, wondering if little doggie is eating her dog food.  Ugh, no! 

The point of telling you all of this is that what grandma did today really tied into yesterday's blog, of breaking down things into small, manageable steps. 

This morning, still worried, grandma makes some kind of a new pancake (she is explaining to me) and brings it into the bedroom where little doggie is sitting on the bed, looking out the window. Little doggie is definitely not interested in what grandma has to offer. Feeling badly for grandma, I walk out of the room and little doggie follows.

Grandma has a bowl with 2 pieces of whatever she has made for little doggie and a plastic lid in her other hand with little pieces of food on it. She puts the bowl on the floor and little doggie eats. Grandma continues to add just 2 pieces at a time until little doggie has eaten it all. Little doggies tummy is full and grandma is happy. 

This was just another chance for me to see how too much of anything can be overwhelming! 

Little steps, little bits of food, little beginnings can be the hallmark of GREAT ENDINGS!  Just do it!