As my last post said, I've signed up for the 3-day walk, and I have expended a huge amount of mental energy planning and preparing for the task ahead. As a sales person, I'm already pretty focused on chasing the Almighty Dollar. But this is different, and I've had to approach it differently. So I've done all kinds of thinking about what will work, what won't work, and how to raise an inordinate amount of money so I don't have to pay it out of my own pocket. (Click the link to the right if you'd like to help me reach my goal! I'm just saying.)
I also got tapped at work about three weeks ago to assist on another sales team temporarily. While I know my product inside out, upside down, front and back, I know only a teeny tiny bit about the other product they've asked me to sell. I've been selling for a decade, and I'm pretty good at what I do, but being asked to change horses mid-stream has had me absolutely bumfuzzled. I work the other team in the morning, then return to my team in the afternoon. So I spend a big chunk of each day having to re-orient myself to the appropriate product.
At home, the balancing act of time and energy management continues. MrG made me fire the maids, so now, we have to do our own housework. (I don't like him much right now, for the record.) Luckily, he's been much more willing (and able, I should add) to assist in the housekeeping chores, and LittleG is a whiz with a Swiffer. After six and a half years of having someone else worry about the dusting and scrubbing the bathrooms, I now have to work that into our schedule. The laundry never seems to stop, and for some reason, those people that I live with insist that I feed them at least daily, which means grocery shopping and kitchen chores.
Anyway, my point here is that I have been compartmentalizing all the "stuff" I have on my mind. At work, I'm focusing on just where in the building I'm sitting at the moment, and what that particular product requires of me. At home, I'm balancing the chores I've been used to, as well as working in the ones someone else has been handling for me. I assign myself the title of Soccer Mom for practices and games, and PTA Board Member when that time comes. With all of my free time, I'm thinking about how in the world I'm going to rasie the money for Komen.
So my left brain has been working overtime. Planning, scheduling, putting continengcy plans in place in case my original plans fail. I haven't had the smallest itch to be the tiniest bit creative.
But a beautiful thing happened yesterday. I found my right brain! I wrote. I baked. I decorated. And I created a cake that I may be as proud of as any other I've ever decorated. See?
I should note for the record that I'm an Aggie, and this is an Arkansas Razorback cake. It pained me to make it, but my friend who asked for it has promised a nice donation to my Komen pot, so I struggled through it.
I don't have any grand delusions that my right brain will ever trump my left. I think all that we can hope for is tiny glimpses into my emotional, creative side. Hopefully my right brain will have its moments of brilliance and greatness through interesting blog posts and beautiful cakes (even if they are cakes with red and black pigs).
At least that's what I'm planning for!
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So I have a friend that I bet a trip to AK that he could not maintain a 4.0 until graduation--undeclared. At UT he had not earned a single credit for his less than 1.0 avg. He took up physics and nano-optics at U of AK and 3 years later, I got my graduation invite--inside it said, 'I win.' I booked the flight and was overwhelmed by his success: valedictorian, science dept highest honors and indeed a 4.0. I told him how impressed I was and he said, 'if I wasn't the smartest guy in Arkansas, I don't think the state of Texas would ever have me back.' :) However, awesome job right brain!!
PS: Money is in the pot. YOU GO GIRL!!
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