Steep Learning Curves


Things are starting to seriously move for me. Both my businesses have started to take off, at almost the same time and I’m loving it. I have moved so far out of my comfort zone that I don’t think I’d recognise my old one anymore if I landed back into it. It would be abit like trying to go back to a time that you weren’t satisfied in, but weren’t

dis-satisfied in either and trying to settle back down to that. Pretty difficult to do. I am finding however that my time is precious to me. I am so busy with both businesses and my home life, I’m doing a fine balancing act at the moment. I get informed of some up-coming events a day or so in advance and have to organise childcare and juggle other things I had ear-marked for that time. I’m also finding that with both businesses some important events are scheduled for the same time and am having to choose between the two, and the benefit of attending each is enormous, so serious decisions are having to be made, while considering the consequences of them in advance. It is certainly a hectic time in my life right now.

The more I am heading towards my goals, the more obstacles that are being put in front of me. Overcoming them is now more of a fun challenge I’ve set myself than an arduous task to be done, and it is nice to look back at the one’s I have overcome and take note of how I did it in case I need to use that learning again in the future. Some of them are self-inflicted, like not managing my time properly or not doing enough groundwork on some things beforehand and I am learning a lot from that. I am also having to question a lot of my attitudes and beliefs around some of the things I had accepted without question, and that is throwing some interesting things

back at me. But I am a firm believer that if something makes us uncomfortable there is a lesson in the discomfort to be learnt if we are prepared to pay attention to it. So I am learning loads, not all of it as straight forward as I’d like it to be, but learning none the less. All of this helps me grow, as a person and as a service provider to her clients.

I am in the position of learning overload at the moment and often have to take some time out just to absorb all that has come at me from the different angles throughout the week. There are times in the day when I find myself saying to myself “Enough! I want to get my head around what I’ve learnt and put some of it into practice before I take anymore on board“. Pacing myself, so that what I do learn is not lost in education and sensory overload. But I must admit I feel so much more alive in the last few weeks than I had for the previous month. I have developed a childlike eagerness and excitement about learning and it has helped to motivate me to take more action and do the things I wanted to, but felt hesitant to do.

What has surprised me most through all of this is that I’ve had a few set-backs during the week and I’ve just slotted them into theplace they’ve needed to be and got on with what I was already doing, making the adjustments required

to overcome them. I already knew that I like to be busy, I find it invigorating, but I have discovered that I don’t like to be overly pressured. While I have had to learn lots, it has been in areas that help me to improve in business and in my personal life, so areas that are of interest to me and my development. Would I like this to continue at this pace? No! Definitely not, but short bursts of it would be nice every couple of months followed by a slower learning pace and action taking at the same time.


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