This post is going to sound bad, like I've got nothing to do, and that's really not the case, but I had an interesting insight on the trip to Vietnam because I was presenting two lectures, one of 20 minutes, and then one workshop session for an hour(twice), and so I'm on the plane, looking at this stuff and then I realise that there's been a pattern.
Number one - I wrote the copy for this ages ago; I'm just moving the copy around.
Number two - I refined it on the plane specifically for Vietnam.
Number three - I reviewed it, sat in this lounge 48 floors up the day before I spoke.
Number four - I've got time tomorrow to look at it before I speak.
Then I realised that my work was done.
My emails are up to date, my lists were managed, the teaching that's imminent was there.
In essence, I had nothing to do. A little while ago I was in a meeting with Hayley (our sensational managing director). I was suggesting that I should do something or add something or make something happen, and she looked at me and said: “You've already done the hard work on this; can you just sit back?”
The only way to poach an egg is to let it poach.
This seems to be a metaphor that I keep returning to at the moment, but my urge is to stick a spoon in the egg and stir it round; but after you've put it on to poach, let it poach.
It's like the recovery before the big race; it's OK to take a minute, especially here, especially today.
Just to have a mini moment where just for a second everything is in place; it definitely won't be like that forever, it probably won't be like that tomorrow, but it is today.
Can you see these moments when they come, because they do?
I'm the person who misses them all the time, but maybe it's my age; maybe I'm just starting to see them a little bit more clearly.
Blog Post Number - 4588