Not all good ideas are good for me.
This isn’t a revelation per se, more of a reminder.
I have this really cool ability to see potential in, well, almost everything.
Burned dinner? Now we can try that new take out restaurant!
Lost my job? Now you I find my DREAM job!
I realize how annoying it can be.
More than just thinking positive I can see opportunity everywhere.
A friend can mention that she is opening a new business and looking for employees, wonders if I am interested and I get so excited.
I imagine the work place, the job and can justĀ see all the amazing potential!
Then (hopefully) just before I say yes a little voice in my head, ever patient and soft spoken says,
“Michele, you don’t know how to lay asphault.”
And that’s when I wish them luck on their new venture promising to send anyone their way who may be a fit.
Recently, an opportunity to have my candles (warning: shameless plug via a hyperlink) in a storefront caught my attention.
I was ready to sign on the dotted line and cut my check.
However I have been practicing.
Since I get SO excited over opportunities, I have started to make myself wait and think about things before I pick up the phone or respond to the email.
I have to mull it over in my own head, then perhaps chat with my close confidants first, get some feedback and if I am still excited I go for it!
The problem with this latest idea was that I had to work the next 3 Saturdays at the store.
Hmm…I like the idea of someday owning my own store.
I like the idea of selling my products face-to-face.
I do NOT like working weekends on someone else’s schedule.
So, I passed.
This was something that came to me yesterday and needed to be decided by Dec.1st.
It brought another reminder to the forefront.
Anytime something has to be decided right now. I almost always should say no.
Any time I am motivated by the urgency of something, it tends to work as beer goggles for the potential and I wake up the next morning, groggy, makeup all smudged, headache racking my brain only to roll over and see a giant, big ‘ol mess lying next to me.
Only it’s not so easy to sneak out and pretend it never happened when you will be paying monthly for that GIANT gym that does not fit inanyone you knows house so what the hell made you buy it at 2am?
So, even the good ideas (like taking up a workout routine) aren’t always something that’s right for me.
And the truth is, even good ideas can be committed to on a smaller, more maneageable scale.
If I truly am moved to start working out by an infomercial, I can start walking daily and see how it goes.
So while I believe that what we focus on is what we receive, it doesn’t mean I have to jump on all the opportunities that come my way.
They all serve, if nothing else than to remind me that there is always another opportunity.
Always a new way to look at things.
Always tomorrow.
Until next time….