It is the second day of the new year, and I seem to have taken more of my lack of sleep into the new year than I had intended. None the less, I am nurturing myself with rest, good food and gentle yet focussed attention to my tasks at hand.
As such, I went about transitioning some of my domain names over to our new server, yet it took 4 chats with tech support to get the right directive to get to where I wanted to get. Seems like that most questions get answered with links to the wrong answers at first and I soon realised, that with patience and clarity of what I needed – eventually, I did get the right tips and access to my Cpanel.
It appeares, that they have set it out in such a clustered way so that more folks will simply hire the pro service to get it done for them. Clever really, just not what I was after. Observing my own attitude in this though, after getting slightly annoyed by the hidden or veiled features and then the answers that were almost insulting my intelligence, I allowed myself to relax and breathe and be extra clear in my communication as to what I was after and in the end I did get the help I needed.
So, why is it, that the first answer seems to be for the dumb. Is it that I ask dumb questions or simply did not narrow to scope of answers down enough. Interestingly enough, in the afternoon I went to office works to print some material, quite a few pages actually, and after surrendering to the fact that they were super busy, opted for the self-serve option.
And, printing some 300 pages did finally come off the press in a good way. Forward-thinking as I am (most of the time) I had brought massive elephant clips to hold the loose pages together. Then as I was about to go, I checked out the binding options and surely the joy of reading 300 pages of neatly bound manuscript is more pleasant than just corner clipped and soon fraying pages – so I opted to have them bound. Rebecca the young custmer service staff was more than helpful yet ask me to come back in an hour and a half later to pick my work up.
At first I was perplexed as I assumed to be out of the shop in minuted with the thing all sorted. Then I stopped to think and was soon happy to trade a little of my time now for the greater pleasure and longer lasting version of my papers. I accepted and said I would run an errand and pop back in a while. She was nice and friendly and pleasant, so I felt good leaving my papers in her care.
I went to the store, caught up on some small tasks on social that were due and reflected a little on my day and the evening ahead. Within less than an hour I came back and sure there, just being completed before my eyes, the final touches were my manuscript neatly bound with cover and back. Definitely worth the extra cost and time.
We can easily be lost in our perceived timeline and really, who are we to determine the perfect time for anything. It is like when we rush, we end up behind the bus or truck and get delayed event the more as if we are not meant to get were we are going sooner. Or we assume that something will take a few minutes but then we are still there an hour later… I believe, that there is the right time for everything. Devine time if you like.
And, today, I needed to get slowed down and put on hold to get with the right time. And, once I did, well, everything flowed and not only did I travel more conscious, present and calmly, but I got a better result in the end for it too. Made me think, that the saying ‘Patience is a Virtue’ somewhat rings true today. 😉