The kick-off, Simplify from the Inside Out, workshop is tomorrow, and I awoke this morning with the conviction that today’s theme is staying present and in control of my mind. Prevent my strength from leaking away all day in worrying about getting this or that ‘just right’. It’ll be fine. The important thing for me is to come to it in the right headspace. An open, flexible, responsive headspace. I can do this by staying calm and focused on the task at hand.

So what did I do first thing this morning? Spend half an hour in mental/emotional la-la land. Doh! I was totally wrapped up in an imaginary scenario involving someone from my past and someone from my present. I could feel any remnant of sleep quickly chased out of me as my shoulders and stomach clenched in response to the situation. Staying calm? Yeah, right.

A couple of hours later, I’m having second thoughts about my response to this mental role playing scenario. It could be akin to wrapping up a chapter of my life that has been wanting closure. It felt rather self-indulgent at the time. Now I can perceive value in seeing myself (visualization) rejecting an unhealthy situation by replaying it in my mind until my response was to refuse to get drawn into the drama.

Life. It happens whether we allow ourselves to go along with it or not. It’s so easy to get caught up in the forwarding the business—to think that it’s the only thing that matters. That plus I’ve been reading recent issues of Business 2.0 and Inc. magazine. Companies and technology are moving so incredibly fast. When I read about what’s going on in Silicon Valley I have to remind myself to go at my own pace. I don’t want to be swept away in the race. Which means cutting myself some slack to allow for some internal shifting, even if it is the day before the kick-off. Especially when one subscribes to the thought that there are no coincidences…. :)