It’s been another busy week for me. I’ve still been working on the website at Self Confidence Workshops (http://www.selfconfidenceworkshops.co.uk ) and have been having major issues implementing a membership plug in for that site. After two days of getting stressed, I finally decided to leave it and concentrate on something else. So I ended day 3 feeling much better, after seeing masses of yellow highlighted stripes over my completed ‘to do’ list. This spurred me on to preparing my filofax for next year and using mission control (TweetDeck) to schedule some status and post updates. I even decided to compile a monthly ‘check list’ for all business related things.
I wrestled the laminator out of the cupboard and laminated the monthly check list – and the newsletter checklist. Then I decided after so much wrestling, I really should make full use of the laminator and went hunting for other things to laminate….
When I got to the stage where I was laminating things I no longer actually used – I decided to stop being anal and forced myself to put it away before I resorted to searching through the filing cabinet for things (I’ll be honest, the idea DID cross my mind a few times!)
The problem is, my mind seemed to have other ideas about letting go. I woke up at ‘stupid’ o’clock with ‘just one more’ idea on how to solve one of the plug in problems – and it worked! I still have a few other problems to solve before I can use the plug in, but the answer to one of my problems didn’t become apparent until I decided to let it go. As I’ve got older I have realised that stewing and stressing over a problem you have will just get you stressed – and quite often, no nearer to a solution.
I’m the typical type of ‘stress-head’ that would rather throw a board game across the room than admit that I cannot win – as my older brother would attest, considering he quite often had to pick board game bits out of his hair. I didn’t get much better as I grew older – the board game just got replaced with the computer etc. But the more I ended up in a stressed, tearful heap on the floor – the more I realised (eventually!) that all it did was get me het up; it didn’t solve the problem.
You have to sometimes make a decision to let it go, thinking ‘it will work out fine’ and concentrate on something else. Your subconscious mind will work on it and, quite often, the answer will present itself when it’s good and ready – even if that is at ‘stupid’ o’clock!
