Category: Miscellaneous Ramblings

Hello everyone!  Happy Sunday!  While we are busy getting ready for the Albuquerque Voodoo Convention, I realize just how much we rely on this little black box sitting in front of us called the computer.  😉   I have used my "little black box" to plan this convention, talk to speakers and clients, connect with and stay in communication with those who are coming and those who want to come next year.  Now I am using it to plan the program, communicate with everyone involved, type things out, do layouts, etc.   So what happens when my Little Black Box goes haywire????

Arrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!  In trying to catch up on readings and other communications this week I find that some things just never even got to me or got to those to whom I sent them.  Where did they go?   Both parties know that they typed words on a screen and hit "send" but it never got where it was supposed to go!  User error?  Computer error?  Eaten by internet gremlins?  Is Bill Gates somewhere in a dark corner laughing madly as he collects and puts into hermetically sealed jars millions of intercepted-for-no-reason emails?? 

I don’t know the answer, but I know the frustration.  However, no matter what, I know that I wouldn’t want to be without my little black box and I am happy to be able to communicate with you in this way!

Have a happy Sunday!

Happy Saturday, everyone.  You know I am always telling clients to move forward in their lives and loves, don’t let the past dictate what you do in the present, etc.., etc.  Now it is no secret to me that this is easier said than done!  My own life is full of some things from the past that I am still dealing with and every once in awhile (like today) something that I think I have resolved gets revisited and rears its ugly little head.  Ugh.

So today I had a little incident where some family members needed to stop by to see Matt and me.  Sigh… this has been a "bad blood" kind of situation for a couple of years and everyone is struggling to get past it and resume some normalcy in these particular relationships.  But TODAY I was having none of that "normalcy" and found that I had a deep seated pocket of anger that was just ready to bubble to the surface.  ACK!

I could hear myself preaching to all of my clients about "Acknowledge, Embrace, Release." (Acknowledge the feeling – admit that you have it.  Embrace it – it is yours to own.  Release it – time to let it go.) This is the way I teach others to  deal with overwhelming feelings of sadness, pain, anger, etc.    Well, here I was in the thick of needing to be able to do that very badly!  LOL.  But guess what, it worked!  I was actually really glad to find out that I was still harboring some of the deep seated anger and resentment because now I can work harder to get rid of it.  Not to mention, "Acknowlege, Embrace, and Release" helped me get through the visit without reaching out and throttling anyone.  😉

It is always enlightening to me to follow my own advice and see whether it works or not.  It is important to me to not just be spouting words that sound good to other people.  I want to know that it works in my life as well as my clients’ lives!   Have a great weekend, everyone!