🌹WineDown Wednesdays w/ Yours Truly🌹

Hey hey hey welcome to Wednesday! How is your week going? Mine is moving along, but man, has life been lifing lately. I went from helping to prepare for our HomeBuying Seminar to being admitted into the ER, put on bed rest, and now helping to care for my father. When I say life decided to LIFE......it definitely did.

As usual, I am reading multiple books at this time, not on purpose, but thanks to the Libby app, it has happened again. There must be some sort of feature I am missing with how long the book rentals are, because some of them I feel like I get them for weeks, and others......barely a week before it's snatched from my Kindle app.

One of the books, Unreasonable Hospitality, has really enhanced my view on how I handle myself and clients in life. I have always been a person who likes to go above and beyond for my family, friends, and clients, and this book has been opening my eyes to how to do this even better.

I keep the Golden Rule of life in the back of my head (or at least try to) with most decisions I make in life: treat others how you would want to be treated. There have been a lot of times in my life where I have been able to show up for people in ways that others are not, and I am genuinely grateful I am able to do this. Most people would expect something in return, but honestly, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside, probably more than it does the other person.

One of the biggest things I forget about upholding the Golden Rule is a lot of times I am so busy pouring into the other people, I forget to pour into myself. These past weeks, I have felt "stuck" in life, as I am a rational person. I tend to deep dive into research, and if there is a problem, my first instinct is to find a solution to fix it. Well, these past weeks, and if I'm being honest, these past months, I have been stuck. I have had some problems, and the "solution" to fix these problems has not been an easy solution. The other book I am reading, Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to get Unstuck (I know ironic, right), has really given me a better outlook on being "stuck". I am not stuck; I am just slowly progressing. It is not as quickly as I want, but I am steadily moving forward.

The same as I have to watch my father, as we all care for him now. He is in one of the biggest uphill fights right now, but little by little, he will get there, and I know it is the same for me. I am the buffalo moving through the storm, not the cow turning my back and going the other way. If you have not heard this metaphor before, look it up; it's a good one. 😎

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A homemade client appreciation gift!! 😍