Staying On Course: It's Never Easy
Yesterday was D Day. The day that circumstances nudged me to begin the journey that will mark 2007 as a year of true change.
Of course, today reality hit when I got sidetracked by a misbehaving mobile phone and an erratic elbow.
For the last several months, I have been strategizing about leaving the B.C. on a daily basis. Yesterday, I took the first baby step towards that goal when I jumped from the security and daily drudge of being a marketing chick for someone else to become a promotional superwoman for me, myself and I (and hopefully, in the near future, a bevy of appreciative clients).
However, following your passions sometimes involves cold, hard truths. Like getting a Treo to accept e-mails without the assistance of a handy tech department down the hall (I think tomorrow will actually result in a "mission accomplished"). Or figuring out whether contacts I wanted to move from point A to point B should be in a .pst or .csv format? (It was a .csv.)
Or being able to maintain your focus when you get served up one of those scheduling surprises. In this instance, Alex's best friend Dave got smacked upside the head by a wayward elbow during basketball practice, resulting in a concussion while his folks were out of town. This meant that as opposed to working on the two proposals and stacks of papers I had targeted for tonight, I spent the evening hanging out with a groggy 18-year-old and his ever loyal sidekick in the emergency room.
Yet one could also look at this evening's events as "this is what is really important" epiphanies. No more worrying about fragile egos or innane systems ahead of helping a friend and bonding with people who matter. Even though I certainly didn't think that hanging with Dave and Alex at Morristown Memorial was part of any master plan, I can't think of anything that better reflects my values than where I was tonight.
Besides, there are 355 days still remaining for chasing dreams in 2007.
