Week 1 of the New Job

I've taken a job and I'm now living in Sydney. I'm the Network Development Manager for a nutrition company. My job is to coach, train and mentor the sales associates to sell a healthy lifestyle. Right up my alley I'd say! I'm based at Baulkham Hills and at the moment I'm staying with Anita and Paul in East Killara till I decide where I'm going to live. I've just completed week 1 at Usana and it has been great. They have a fabulous culture, very professional and caring. They love the skills I have and really want to utilise my knowledge. I get a phone, a laptop and they're sending me all around Australia and to New Zealand as well. I just love a job with travel.

You'd think I'd be in shock with all the whirlwind changes in the last 2 months but I'm not. I'm taking things a day at a time, concerning myself with my immediate circumstances and letting the future work its own self out. It's a new way of thinking for me, not worrying about the future. I used to always find solace in the future. That's the place where it was always going to be better; "there" was better than it was "here". Except it wasn't. By the time I got there it was just as bad, boring or monotonous as it was here! Funny that! Now I know my job is only to concern myself with the present. My jurisdiction is only right here right now, and maybe a little bit into the next moment. The irony of it is, that concerning yourself with the present is extremely simple, it's quite binary, like choose or don't choose, take action or don't take action, be responsible or don't be responsible, be loving or be afraid. In fact I think that's it- To be or not to be, that is the question. Who will I be in this moment, and then in this moment, and then in this moment. It's amazing how much head space it frees up for other things. Ahh, but what other things?

Things like...making choices right now that lead to the future I see in my mind's eye. Things like giving up my crappy stories about how bad Christmas is and just getting in and enjoying it for what it is...things like appreciating the friends and family that I have now and making sure those relationships are cruisy before looking outside of that circlefor what I'm not getting...things like getting a job so I can pay off all my debts and start to create a plan for what's next (rather than packing up my life in 10 days and heading off overseas at a whim!)...things like just saying yes to every opportunity that comes my way and being a BIG, FAT YES to life and love and whatever else there is.

2008 will definitely be interesting and I dare say, exciting and adventurous. Stay tuned. Love to you. B