The Secret's In Hitting The Spot - YOUR Spot!

The biggest thing I've learned this month is that there are consequences for non-punctuality, or leaving things for Ron!  (Whose Ron?  He's my mate!  Well actually he's Aussie slang for "later on", but that makes him a closer mate!) 

So there might be consequences for tardiness!

What consequences?

Well, when you're one of the many authors at Joyful Jubilant Learning, the consequences can be dire!  If you are silly enough to leave your writing till late in the month, so many ways of looking at Making A Difference have already been taken!   (Woe is me!  What am I gonna write about?  Cue: weeping, wailing, gnashing teeth, and violin crescendo!)

Karen Wallace on her blog The Clearing Space has very elegantly tried to suggest how advantageous it is to be fashionably late to the party.   SweetP (love of my life) is always hinting that I may enjoy life more, if I wasn't so determined to run so close to the "punctuality" wind.  My son, Lovable Geek, just thinks I'm a disgrace and disrespectful because I'm not obsessively early!  (I THINK he still loves me despite that fatal flaw!)

Well, maybe they're right.

Maybe being late in the month in the big JJL Make A Difference Gig has been really stupid!

First Joanna Young jump-started the reflections with her musings on the power of words.  That got us all thinking!

Then, I noticed Rosa Say used words to lead and intrigue, by nominating some of the JJL authors to teacher roles - university lecturer roles no less!.  I wonder if any of those nominated have ever seen themselves as skilled in those areas (or ever added them to their CVs).   And yet Rosa was right.  She zeroed in on how people made a difference, without realising, by their words and gift of self to JJL. 

Rosa, I really "got" this concept, until you had me as a Science Teacher! But then again, maybe you ARE right Rosa! (SweetP!  Stop it! Stop snorting!  I CAN be logical and rational!  And just because "real scientists" don't believe in human sciences ...  Oh forget it, I'm not feeling very logical right now!)

Then came Karen Wallace's big revelation to herself, (the rest of us already knew) that she does and can make a difference every day of her life.  Good grief, she's been selling herself short!  The along came Greg Provance's articulation of how making a difference requires us to BE A DIFFERENCE!

See what I mean?  Brilliant thoughts and contributions all!

So what's left for me to say?

I have just one small shy little offering in this massive gig!

Making A Difference is about Picking Your Spot.

It's about knowing confidently what's the right spot for you by believing in yourself.

It's hitting the target dead-centre, finding your niche in life, relationships and work, and hanging on for the roller-coaster ride!

You see, I might be late, fashionably or otherwise, but the spot for me to share in wasn't right till all those things had happened.  Until all those words were shared and marvelled at.  All those concepts had been debated and shaken into certainty.

Making A Difference isn't always mountain-moving. Sometimes it's just about chipping away at the right spot to find the diamond!

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Chris Owen of Pink Apple is an Aussie-based Relationship Specialist and blogger who shares the Secrets to Successful Relating.  Her humourous style brings many readers to her blogs Take A Bite and Apple Tart.

Together with Karen Wallace she has also co-authored Save Our Xmas Sanity which is currently rescuing frazzled women as the Christmas decorations start appearing in the stores!

 

Comments

[Joanna Young]

Hi Chris

I wouldn't have known you were late if you hadn't told me!!

I enjoyed reading this. I'm finally learning how to find, hit, focus on my spot.

It's the oddest experience because the more I've 'narrowed' the more other things have expanded - ideas, energy, inspiration, creativity, possibility...

Thanks for the reminder

Joanna

[Chris Owen]

And Joanna,
If anyone had told you (or me) that the narrowing means expanding you'd never have believed it would you?
Spooky!

[Rosa Say]

What a terrific Kākou kind of thought Chris (Kākou is the Hawaiian value of inclusiveness). This forum has been so wonderful because there have been so many spots!

We have room for a whole lot of spots here on JJL, spots where you run very little risk – if at all – in falling of a target completely. Where ever your spot may be is a new bullseye – yours and your contribution. When you decide to “stick it” and claim that spot, you find you actually are at the center, for you are the pebble in the pond that started the ripples. So to everyone out there, I say take aim and launch your dart!