This morning I spent 3 hours in the car on the way to work. One hundred and eighty minutes is a lot of time to spend alone with my mind on a Monday morning.
It gave me plenty of time to dwell on everything that had gone wrong in what has to be the hardest year of business I’ve been through so far. I managed to compile quite a list.
Once all the negatives were exhausted I realised that I was in my own car, on my way to my first meeting with an exciting new client that a good friend had helped build a connection with.
It turns out that not all the things suck.
I’m not new to gratitude, but I thought that if I was going to commit to it I didn’t want to burn my Facebook friends out with my constant posts of happiness. More time alone in the car was the catalyst I needed to start a gratitude journal. Me being me, it wasn’t going to be a conventional gratitude journal. It was going to need to be web-based and it was going to be done my way, with my rules.
I thought to myself if I can achieve a 195-day streak in a silly fishing game on my phone and a 60-day streak on Duolingo maybe I should challenge myself to a streak of something more worthwhile.
I bought myself the domain www.lifedoesntsuck.co.nz and I set up a WordPress blog. Now I’ve got a small slice of the internet to fill with my thoughts.
Life doesn’t suck…
because of my people
Back to my head. Sitting in Auckland motorway traffic I got thinking about the people in my life and what they do for me.
I was in my car in Auckland because I had shown my worth in my work to a friend and she had recommended me to a client of hers. My last trip to Auckland had been to visit another client, recommended by another friend who I had worked with. This other client has become my biggest client and all because of the recommendation of one of my people.
There are many more people that make sure my life doesn’t suck. They will have to wait for another day.