Dear reader,
Happy goat’s 2015! The Chinese know, what they are talking about.
I hate computers. This time it’s happened to me and I didn’t save my draft, so I had a perfect post written for you and I’ve lost it because my computer went down on me. Really hate computers now for a while.
And yet, guess the previous post wasn’t good enough, so maybe it was a sign I could do better. So I’ll try. Hope you’ve entered 2015 with a few pounds more, because it is predicted, the winter will be long and cold 🙂 anyway, welcome to January. I’ve got news for you. It’s time, to go real. It’s time to open my own practice.
You’ve probably noticed by now the cautiousness and perfectionism. Both not so good when trying something new or making a big step forward. But you know, you want to be sure and you wait for the perfect moment. It is actually similar to when you have sympathies for someone and you don’t know when and how you can let them know that. You plan and wait for the right moment, but you are too afraid for what if he/she says no. Then, when you are courageous enough, suddenly you get ill. When you are healthy and courageous, your significant person goes out of town and you don’t have their contacts. When you collect the contacts, you are healthy and courageous and you try to compose that breaking point email, your computer dies (like mine did just minutes ago). You don’t give up and try over your phone, but then it’s already too late hours and you don’t want to disturb of course. You write in the morning. But it’s too early. So you plan to meet them in person. You have the courage, are healthy, with your phone fully charged, yet a huge pimple grows right in the middle of your face! So the pimple goes away and you are ready and everything looks ok. And then you are told that he/she found someone else in the meanwhile. You go home, throw away your new jacket that you bought for that special occasion and give up.
Sounds somehow familiar?
How many times have you been waiting for the perfect moment until it slipped away from you? Right in front of your eyes? To be honest, a perfect moment never comes. It is indeed never perfect. No matter how many times you try to improve this and that, there will almost always be some room for improvement. Now what you can do:
- a) wait a bit more, for your perfect moment to come or
- b) take the “good enough” moment.
It’s that simple. And because it’s simple, it’s, as you know, very difficult. How can you tell whether the timing is right? You might not notice. It might never come and you’ll spend your life waiting. When choosing option b and it doesn’t work out, at least you’ll know the timing wasn’t right. And if you stick with a, you might never find out. The time will pass in both cases and it will heal wounds in both cases.
From my experience, option b eventually after some time passes and you look back, suddenly I realise that a “good enough” moment actually was perfect timing. What is good enough? You might notice from signs. If it helps, I’d like to share what signs told me that timing for me was right:
– I’ve reviewed edited a SF book and the author suggested I should think about my professional webpage so that she could mention me in the impressum;
– my first international scientific SF article is about to be published (yay for me!) and the publishers wanted to know my organization’s name;
– there are many international Solution Focused therapists, coaches, trainers and practitioners who are interested in collaboration;
– clients ask about my company and I’ve been invited to deliver a workshop where they wanted to know my prices;
– I feel it inside.
It may not be perfect timing, but it feels right. There’s a proverb that goes something like: “yes, no or wait”. I’d add “and look for signs if the answer is wait”. So maybe “good enough” is good enough. And when you start to pay attention and look for the signs, you might be surprised how many there actually are and you haven’t noticed. January is good for a fresh start. So go, fly, butterfly! Let me know how it goes.
My first Office. A friend gave that huge mug.
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