Day 2,917

Growth:

Something that never ceases to make me chuckle is the number of times I’m working on something and think about how nice it would be to have a tool from a past training to help out and then realize that the right tool to use is one that I created for a past training. Such was the case this morning as I was prepping for a conflict resolution conversation and wanted a way to help organize my thoughts to maximize effectiveness. Lo and behold, I found exactly what I was looking for, the conversation outline from a difficult conversations training class I created about four years ago!

I should probably remember to turn more of my life lessons into trainings – not necessarily for others, but for myself in the future!

Appreciation:

What was supposed to be an hour of helping Gavin with two quick tasks turned out to be a couple hour long adventure and opportunity for the two of us to bond. We went from home to the DMV to home to the DMV to Kohls to Target and finally back to home. In between we had conversations, plot twists, even cameo appearances! Just when we thought it was over there was even another act waiting as I took Gavin’s soccer coat to him at the Logan homecoming game.

The details aren’t important (though we will both be laughing about them for quite some time), but the time together was priceless even if it wasn’t planned to be that way. As Bob Ross would have said, the entire experience was a happy accident!

Presence:

Sitting on the couch at home enjoying a moment of quiet brought a wonderful surprise, the pitter patter of rain falling outside our open windows. Such a wonderful sound to relax to, deeply centering at any time regardless of what’s happening in the world around me.

Thanks!!!