Monday Moment - Accelerating Through a Curve

You know how it is when someone throws you a curve? Seems to me I either go off the road – or I accelerate through the curve and discover something new. Today’s curve actually seems to have helped me discover something old…

Today’s curve:
At 8:16, as I’m driving into Rochester to lead a training at 9AM, I got a call from the person who set up the training. Three of her staff – the three she most wanted to receive the training – didn’t show this morning. Could we reschedule?

Oy! Rochester is an hour from home, I don’t like to make unnecessary trips, and I already scheduled another commitment this afternoon – also in Rochester. Oy!

But maybe we could reschedule the training for this afternoon? Early afternoon so I could still make my other commitment? Okay then! First curve handled.
Now what to do till then? In Rochester, because I’m already in the city by this point and won’t make the trip back home to turn around and come back again. So I head for a free wi-fi place where I might do some work I’d brought along, draft my Monday message to you – and coincidentally enjoy a frothy cup of chai. Next leg of the curve handled.

And here’s the place where I accelerated and discovered something old. Do you recognize my stars? If you’ve joined the Monday Moments in the last few months, you probably won’t recognize my old email stationery. But if you’ve been with me for a long time, here are those old familiar yellow stars! Again!

Why did I re-instate the stars today? Because the curve gave me a little extra explore time that I’ve never seemed to take before. I thought – when I changed my email program – that my stars were gone forever. Alas. Truth is, I never really looked. I just assumed they were no longer available.

But today, when I took the time to look – because I had this unexpected curve – I found my stars again! They were lurking in the background all along. Who knew? Hooray for the curve that helped me find my stars!

I should know by now that what seems like bad news often turns into something helpful and positive. I’ve had plenty of opportunities to learn the lesson. I really hope that next time somebody throws me a curve, I’ll grin and step on the gas, knowing that whatever is on the other side of the curve can be terrific!

Wishing you something unexpected – and excellent in the coming week!

Sally