Hi friends.
I keep thinking about blogging and feeling so out of it, so consumed with moving house and organising a retreat and, well, LIFE, that I feel like I don’t have anything wise, or funny, or interesting to share.
This has happened before – the busy-ness that gets in the way of writing – and it doesn’t feel good to me. I love writing and blogging and sharing!
So this morning, I thought I’d sit down to write, and write what I need to hear. Let’s see what happens, shall we?
Right now, there are cardboard boxes taking up the bedroom. There are boxes of goodies for the retreat all over the living room. There are notebooks everywhere. There are Important Documents on the table, next to the socks I haven’t put on yet and the birthday cards I need to write. There are lists and lists and lists.
Right now, my cash flow is tight. I’m balancing retreat outgoings and moving costs and deposits and the hope and expectation of income from my flat. It will be fine, but it doesn’t always feel fine.
Right now, I have to remember that it’s temporary, that we will move and it will be done. I won’t be in this transitional space, liminal and chaotic, forever.
I have so many dreams and plans for my business this year. I have so much hope for creating some really cool, useful, new stuff. I really want to get on with it! But I simply can’t right now. There’s plenty to be doing over the coming weeks. Later in the year, I’ll be moved and able to jump in with both feet (rather than a fingertip).
I wonder whether you can relate to that feeling of a forced pause? Like my clients who’ve had babies and had to accept that they can’t do all the things they were planning to do. Sometimes it’s as long as a year or more, and sometimes it’s a couple of months, but occasionally we have to allow our businesses to tick over (rather than expand and grow) in order to get on with life stuff.
This is what I need to hear: you’re in the middle of this process. So you have to keep going with as much grace, rest, joy, trust as possible. You don’t have to sparkle every day. You just have to keep going, keep prioritising, and keep thinking about the end goal.
You’ll be so grateful when you get there.
Exactly what I needed to read today… thank you. 🙂
You are so welcome, lovely Elizabeth! x
My transition time is going on maybe 4 years now. Only two of which I even recognized that I was in a transition. Yes, I’m talking menopause. 🙂
Not business related changes I know. But it can change your life in ways which, depending on what things happen, can take a long time to transition through.
I feel like I’m slowly trudging in circles through a bramble filled wood. Constantly battling thorns and branches slapping me in the face, getting tangled in my hair. I’m afraid of being so constantly caught up in picking leaves and twigs out of my hair and off of my clothes and mending my scratches that I don’t even see that the way out is so close. Like if I could just veer a few steps in a different direction I’d be through.
Thank you so much for sharing your own transition, Connie. Funny how transition in one area of our lives can leak into others! Sometimes we can’t see how far the path ahead is, just trust that we will get out of the woods. Don’t forget to pause for breath once in a while! x