Today I received and important phone call and an equally important email connecting me back to my past. Both came from women with whom I had significant relationships not so long ago. Last year however - like it has been for many others - was a devastating year for me.
Gladly - I have left 2011 and jumped eagerly into new opportunities in 2012. Oh what a difference a day can make in terms of how we view the world. I mean really - what could really be the difference between December 31st and January 1st 2012?
It wasn't so much as a change in the year as it is a change in how I feel and my attitude towards the future. Interesting huh?
As eager as I was to leave 2011 behind I did take time to reflect on what made that year in particular so difficult for me. And then I realized after the call and the email - that I had left behind many good things without realizing it. And in just a few moments in the new year - two of those good things (relationships) came back into my life. And in a moment- I brought forward all the good things that I had left behind!
Tara - a client and friend was first to connect. She too has had her share of 'stuff' in the last couple of years. One of the decisions she made in the new year was to reconnect with important people in her life. I hope she realizes the importance of her reconnection - how healing it was for me. I see that when those important connections become broken - we lose a little of ourselves. So thank you Tara! (please see her site here)
The other reconnect was with Deborah. Her company designed our site - and has been instrumental in encouraging me to continue moving forward in my business no matter how much it hurt. (yes I do have bad years too) Deborah is in re-invention mode - stretching her entrepreneurial reach into the hotel business! Pretty soon I expect her to 'rule the world'. She already rocks it!
Lesson for me? It could be summed up in "don't throw the baby out with the bath water". But in all seriousness, the second lesson is about staying connected. In order to become the best 'us' we can be - we have to remain connected to the good bits - because every time we leave one good bit behind - we lose a little of the best of who we are!
Deborah and Tara bring out the good bits in me - and I am glad that they have found me again! Makes me feel like orchestrating group hug... or joining the one below!
Gladly - I have left 2011 and jumped eagerly into new opportunities in 2012. Oh what a difference a day can make in terms of how we view the world. I mean really - what could really be the difference between December 31st and January 1st 2012?
It wasn't so much as a change in the year as it is a change in how I feel and my attitude towards the future. Interesting huh?
Tara - a client and friend was first to connect. She too has had her share of 'stuff' in the last couple of years. One of the decisions she made in the new year was to reconnect with important people in her life. I hope she realizes the importance of her reconnection - how healing it was for me. I see that when those important connections become broken - we lose a little of ourselves. So thank you Tara! (please see her site here)
The other reconnect was with Deborah. Her company designed our site - and has been instrumental in encouraging me to continue moving forward in my business no matter how much it hurt. (yes I do have bad years too) Deborah is in re-invention mode - stretching her entrepreneurial reach into the hotel business! Pretty soon I expect her to 'rule the world'. She already rocks it!
Lesson for me? It could be summed up in "don't throw the baby out with the bath water". But in all seriousness, the second lesson is about staying connected. In order to become the best 'us' we can be - we have to remain connected to the good bits - because every time we leave one good bit behind - we lose a little of the best of who we are!
Deborah and Tara bring out the good bits in me - and I am glad that they have found me again! Makes me feel like orchestrating group hug... or joining the one below!
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