Day Three :: I Have Confidence

I just realised this morning (or rather, remembered, for I’d realised before) that I didn’t finish reading Getting Things Done. Which is kind of ironic. I need to add that to a to-do list.

Done it.

Today I covered a lot of material on Productivity, Focus and Organisation, which – like many people – are all areas in which I struggle. Particularly focus.

And it continues to go well. I am learning, and consolidating. Actually, the consolidating is proving particularly useful, as it’s reminding me how far I’ve come, how confident I am in my abilities and how much I have to offer a wide range of potential clients.

And I’m enjoying it.

I was listening to an interview with an Irish golfer about an hour and a half ago. He was talking about the importance of enjoying your … your thing, whatever it is. In his case, it’s golf. In mine it’s writing. In your case, I don’t know. But in all our cases, the thing that fulfils us and gives us meaning, no matter how important, is still merely a part of the whole. And really, you have to enjoy the whole.

Life. If you’re going to get the most out of it, you have to really love it. And – I’m happy to report – I really do. Over the past few years, I’ve become more and more aware of how much I do love my life and how grateful I am for so much of it.

So I was listening to this golfer fella when the interviewer mentioned something about a great day, when everything is going really well. I was looking out of the window at the time, watching the vicious rain pummelling the back yard, and it occurred to me that today might be one of those days for me.

Even though it was only 11am at the time, I knew that my day would include five hours of this training, which is very enjoyable and already filling me up with ideas (that are threatening my focus), and I’d also be teaching a student who I really like because she’s really enthusiastic, and that makes all the difference.

So I was looking at the rain and thinking, yeah, today is shaping up like a doozy when, at that very moment, there was a massive and totally unexpected clap of thunder.

It’s only thinking about it now that I realise I could have taken this as a portent of doom, as it might be in a hackneyed horror film, but that didn’t occur to me at the time. That didn’t occur to me at the time because I love thunder. I mean, I really love it. It excites me on some primal level. Just the (to me) baffling power of it, that it can get inside you and shake your bowels and then it’s gone.

And this was just a single clap, so I chose to interpret it as a personal message. From the Universe.

Yeah, why not.

So I’m having a good day.

I hope you are too.

If you’re not, this song’s for you. Embrace it. Embrace it.

 

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