Yes, please.

What will you focus on?

What does it mean?

How will you respond?

Winds of change are blowing around here. I’ve been afflicted with a desire to stop doing things all the time, to stop spending every last waking moment trying to do something.

I think maybe it’s time to reconsider my success strategy.

I closed a business three years ago.  It was a business that made me temporarily rich and less temporarily poor.  It was a short love with a long divorce.

I tried to bounce back but it didn’t come back. Not the business itself, I didn’t want that back, but the income – from any source at all – it didn’t come back and I’ve been so broke for so long now that it almost doesn’t seem weird anymore.

But it is weird and it’s not ok and I’m done.

I wouldn’t say that I’ve wasted my time. To the contrary, some would argue that I have helped facilitate life altering transformations for quite a few people.  I would say, “that’s nice but it’s come at my own expense.”

Not one of the people I’ve helped would be willing to do what I do for the amount of money that I walk away with.  Absolutely not, they wouldn’t even consider it.  I show up for them, whether I feel like it or not, but my wellbeing is left to their sense of convenience.  They think nothing of their work meetings and endless vacations, naturally they do what they need to do and now the time has come to turn the coin.

The answer is easy, if you take it logically.

The focus has to change to taking care of business on the home front. What that means is renegotiating my deal with the universe in regards to paychecks. The proper response is to say “yes, please” when offered an opportunity to join the world of functioning adults.

Soo…, yes please.

Author: d. Nelle Vincent

I write stories about wine and the human condition because the devil, as they say, is in the details. View all posts by d. Nelle Vincent