Down To The Wire!

In desperation, I’m finding (or forcing) inspiration. I find myself down to the wire, in more ways than one, once again. With mere hours left of May, I’m forcing myself to write, but then, that was the whole point of revamping this blog in the first place. I guess a review of the month would be the best option. It’s been quite a month, at that, and yet not so much a noteworthy one that would provide enthralling reading ‘out there’. The most noteworthy event of the month was my ‘weekend’ in Sydney, where I attended a marketing and leadership seminar, run by Stuart Zadel. As it turned out, it was the last of these seminars/weekends that he and his company would facilitate. I arrived in Sydney the day before the seminar was due to start, and left the day after. The way I figured it: I wasn’t going to be cooking, I was out of Melbourne, I was staying in a hotel. To me, that technically added up to a holiday! I won’t go into what happened within the seminar, needless to say that it was very insightful, but I will say that time took on a different meaning. By the end of the first day, it felt like I’d already been there for a full weekend. By the end of the third day, it felt like a week and a half had passed. There was a lot of information to take in, which may have had something to do with the time deception, or perhaps it was just the focus and concentration on that information that skewed time. By the end of it, I had met some very cool people, and run into a few others that I’d met previously. The other highlight of the month, and part inspiration for the heading, is that I have finished up my ‘temporary’ stint at the café in Kensington that I was working at. The six weeks that turned into a little over two months. So now, I have six day weekends to contend with (which would normally be a cool notion, if the one day a week I am working was going to provide adequate money to live on and enjoy said weekends). Also, related to the café, is the fact that it underwent a sale (OF the business, not WITHIN the business), so the prospect of being called back again, is less likely. New owners, new means of dealing with absent staff. I continue to work on my business idea, but really do need to start putting some actions into gear. All the ideas in the world won’t make it happen unless there is movement behind them. And of course, the obstacle that is impeding me is….. me! I’m thinking too much about little details that I don’t really need to worry about, and thinking about what could happen if I DO need to be thinking about them. And there is fear: probably of both failure AND success. And so there is the wire. I either walk it, or trip it: either way, I have to do SOMETHING.