And Knowing is Half the Battle
For those of you who have been accustomed to the five day a week blog entry from me, you might have noticed that suddenly I'm lucky to do one a week. Lately its been hard to focus. In everyone's life a little rain must fall. Like the rain, bad stuff happens when it will and in the amount it decides at the time. When the sun shines, good days, when its cloudy, you keep an umbrella handy and tend to stay indoors with warm drinks. When it rains, you deal with the rain. That's why we have umbrellas, that's why we have rain coats and goulashes, dig a ditch, install gutters, put up a porch, and hope the levees hold.
It has flooded, and I like anyone have been washed away by it. But you find something to cling to. You climb to higher ground and you try to cope. One thing I did recently that really helped was to create a chart breaking the bad stuff into columns. Trouble at home goes here, trouble with family goes there, trouble at work over there. It has been instrumental in helping me find my way. Its a star to steer by, a peak to hike towards, a dam to divert run off. I put it up on a big white board. This way as things are taken care of (or stop being a problem) they can be erased, if some new disaster occurs it can be added.
I can't think of a single thing I have ever done more instrumental to helping me cope with it all, and with it I have learned one valuable thing.
I'm gonna need a bigger white board.
