Monday, 10 April 2017

Micro win

The ever lovely Lisa Nichols told me to celebrate Micro Wins.

I don't know Lisa, I've never met her, but I do adore her and wish I spent more time listening to and reading her sooner.

I'm currently reading or trying to read Abundance Now by Lisa Nichols, amongst the many other books I'm juggling. I say trying to read because at the end of virtually every third paragraph she asks you these ridiculously thought provoking questions that send my head on a world wind trying to answer there and then.

I have accepted that I will have to read the book more than once to get the full benefit out of it. I haven't even gotten to the bit in the book where she discusses micro wins, I've only heard her speak about them in interviews. I like them. It's very easy to look at your big goal and feel like the tiny steps you made today didn't do much to shift the mountain, but it's never true. I try to think of it like a dial on a clock, the angle of the hand movement that adjusts for 5 minutes is much wider and obvious at the top of the clock then it is at the centre, and the centre is where I am at any given time. It's all I can see right there and then but doesn't mean that the hand didn't just move 5 minutes, because it did. All because it's not obvious to me yet from the centre, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

I had 2 Micro Wins today. The first one was a really good lunch with my Line Manager. I work at a fantastic company - I say that without being under a single feather of duress (no sarcasm). It's great and he's great, so we're chatting away and he asks me how I'm going to use my week off, I tell him I'm taking my second (and final) drivers test again and working on my personal business stuff like my writing and setting up the online business. There was no shock, no feeling threatened, no trying to talk me out of it, he just went on to talk about his nieces side businesses. And I'm sitting there thinking, I hadn't intended on bringing that up today, I was going to tell him that I had a business when I actually felt I had one. But there it is, out in the open and the ground didn't fall through, it didn't even murmur. And as I said in my well timed post yesterday - how many people said "are you allowed to do that and work for your company at the same time?" "don't you think they'll treat you differently, and not think you're invested?". Valid questions but A. I don't work for constantly paranoid people anymore, B. I rock my day job - I'm a Project Manager. I get things done morning, noon, and now night. If I ever felt that my personal business - the creating and functioning of it - ever interfered with my day job, I'd just move things around to make them integrate with my life better.

And I'm not in a rush for any of this, one of the biggest deals I made with myself when I decided to start doing all of these things (including this blog) was that I'd do it if it made me feel good, if it excited me, if I felt eager about it.

The second Win was I just bought my first stock for my first online business, I'll be setting up the prettiness (website, you tube, facebook page) once I actually receive said goods. All in good time.

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