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Friday, July 6, 2012
Upstaging?
So.. I look at stuff like this. I see it much, going around Facebook and on Pintrest. I see it on the inspirational emails I get in the mornings, and on Seth Godin's Blog. In life situations in business and personal.
Be More.
Do Better.
Rise Above.
Go Beyond.
.....and my thought is this- jeezzus, AGAIN? Like, How many times can I do this?
and I'm serious.
I have been actually, for the first time in my life wondering- How the HELL do I top THIS?
Let me see if I can explain this- (it's late at night and I am sleepy... must..form...thoughts....)
See, I came from very little by American Standards. I lived in the poor part of town, I grew up dumpster Diving. Went through my mother's addictions and death, ... on and on. Turmoil.
But. I did complete High School. Excellent. And I did put my brother through High School. Okay. While I had legal custody of him, at age 20. Me. 20... Him 16. Oh.. okay.
Life... details... things... experiences.
Anyways. Fast Forward. New Hampshire. Present Day. Age... 35.
Single Mother. Business Owner. Community Supporter.
.... from scratch. No business loans, no business education, no .... anything.
Was gifted help in the first year via a few start up items. Then, Run with it... and keep going. Why? Because some people work at burger king while their children are raised by a day care... me? no. It's take your child to work day- every day. More like 'take your life to work day' - every day.
I work in the spiritual field. In more ways than one. I do a LOT of stuff... things people take for granted, on a daily basis. Things that we, in American Society, take complete un-notice of... on a moment by moment basis. Details. "its All In the Details"... But I do them.... clean rug? Yep. Me. Tea Brewed? Yep. Me. Laundry washed. Yep. Me. Child off to school and 'worm-bin-day' accomplished. yep. me. Show Gardens Weeded. Yep. Me. Class researched, printed, scheduled, ran. Yep. Me. Sidewalk shoveled. yep. me. Animals fed and cleaned. Yep. Me.
Details. every .....single.....day.
..... And I see these posts saying - TOP IT ALL!
WTF??? Seriously?!? Is that even POSSIBLE anymore? There have been times where I have realized I just CANNOT fit ANY more into my day- even if I WANTED to ! It is not POSSIBLE. I don't have the time, energy or even thought process to do what I use to be able to. 10 years ago I would work from 3p.m. to 2 a.m. and was great at it. I cleaned houses on the side! now? I can't even clean my OWN house as well as I would like to.
The biggest thing for me in this whole top-yourself-silly thing is that I have an entire community of people - a whole genre of spiritual seekers counting on me every day... I cannot afford to do less than my best- even when I absolutely do NOT want to. I have to be on my A-Game all of the time.
I guess my rant here is just about doing my personal best.
....And I can say, I absolutely have risen to the occasion, and I carry 110% of the responsibility of the goodness of doing my best...
I am always working on my self, and I think it is high time to pat myself on the back, and say- Dawn, damn good job. You have done it. Good work!! You did it!
:)
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