Struggles

This has been a week of struggles.  Work struggles.  Life struggles.  Decision struggles.  I'm not one to dish out a lot of details while I struggle through things.  Sometimes its easier for me to work it through on my own than to think it out loud into the blogosphere. 

With work, its issues with a new managerial staff, and it seems as if each of them has an oar in the water, but no one's paddling in the same direction.  Which results in covering a lot of the same ground over and over again.  Frustrating for people who like to have a clear goal and just get things done.  Very frustrating.

 

With life, its ... well, I'm calling it a growth period.  Now that there aren't major goals on my plate, its time to refine the smaller goals, or find some new goals.  I've been "status quo" for a couple of years now, and its time to branch out in new directions.  I have been doing it in small pieces, local concert in the park, a night hike in the mountains.  Small steps in the right direction :)  I think one of the things that I really need to do is take a vacation by myself.  No kids. No family.  Something and somewhere I really want to go.  When I was home, I didn't get any beach time, so I'm leaning in that direction.  Or maybe some mountains, forest, trees, hiking.  I'll have to do some research.

Decision struggles are self explanatory, yes?   Everyone has decisions to make, from what to have for dinner to what do I want out of life? And sometimes in life, we reach a point where there aren't a lot of choices when  stuck in a rut.  You either do, or don't.  And if you don't like those choices, do you suck it up and keep things as they are?  

Sometimes change is a good thing, a necessary thing, 

no matter how much we don't like it, or want it to happen.  

Sometimes change helps us grow into the next phase. 

“Sometimes good things 

fall apart so better things 

can fall together.” 

-Marilyn Monroe