In some ways it feels like just yesterday I was in Barcelona for CiscoLive. The convention center filled with people and energy… and all of that energy and life spilling out into everything around it…. from La Rambla to the restaurants… even into the privacy of my hotel room. Life…. excitement… the feeling of being so very alive and a part of something so large. Everything just seemed perfectly right.

…. Like I said in some ways it feels like just yesterday. I can close my eyes and be back there. I can find myself longing to be back there. But that isn’t today’s reality is it? So much has changed this year in what seems like the blink of an eye.

CHANGE….

That small word has never seemed so very big and overwhelming to me as it has this year. There are those days it just feels like too much change. Like I have hit the limit of what I can handle. And I want to escape and not feel it. I want to run sometimes. But to where? I want to cry sometimes. But to who?

Life on Life’s Terms….

Yes there is a part of me that would like to wake up back in my hotel room in Barcelona and find that all of this was just a dream. But that isn’t reality.

“Life on Life’s Terms” – it is an expression that has served me well over the years. And an expression I have tried hard to lean on this year. Just have never had a year with Life having so many “terms” to accept. lol.

Suit Up…. Show Up… Do the Next Right Thing

I think sometimes all we can do is just suit up… show up… and do the next right thing even if the next right thing isn’t clear. Often I am finding that the next right thing starts with taking care of myself. Because I cannot give away that which I do not have.