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Greetings,
Welcome to LifeWork Letter!
This month's theme is "On Waiting".
Transition times - which happen frequently in our
lives - always involve waiting: waiting for something to
begin or to end or both. How do you feel about
waiting? Is it a waste of time? Or an opportunity for
learning and growth?
For those of you who have been waiting for
Halloween, there are treats in store for you in this
newsletter.
For those of you who have been waiting for Daylight
Saving Time, it begins this coming Sunday morning,
November 1, at 2AM. Read more about it below, and
remember to set your clocks back one hour before you
go to sleep Saturday night!
Happy Fall (Back),
Connie
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Between the wish and the thing, life lies waiting.
- Author unknown
Any minute now, my ship is coming in....
I'm waiting for my real life to begin.
- Colin Hay
How much of life is lost in waiting.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
When fishermen can't go to sea, they mend
nets.
- Book of Runes (adapted)
Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today.
Now.
So that those moments of happiness you're waiting
for don't pass you by.
- Author unknown
Just keep coming home to yourself. You are
the one you've been waiting for.
-
Byron Katie
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| On Waiting: A Time for Regrouping or a Waste of Time? |
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Below is an excerpt from a longer article posted on
my Blog site on October 6, 2009. To read the
complete article, click on the link below.
Lately, I've been thinking about the concept
of "waiting". Waiting is one of the built-in aspects of
being in a period of transition. We all go through
transition periods at different times in our lives. Many
of us are in transition right now.
What are we waiting for? Could be almost anything.
Waiting for good news, waiting for bad news. Waiting
for the economy to get better, for the stock market to
go up, for the unemployment rate to go down, for the
axe to fall on a job, for the outcome of a job interview,
for school to start or end, for the next exam, for the
results of a lab test, for the next date, for a proposal,
for a special event or the next holiday, for a sale to go
through, for a mortgage approval, for a baby to be
born, for that check to arrive in the mail, for the weather
to change, for your life to change in some wonderful
way, small or large. Perhaps we are waiting for life to
begin (literally or figuratively) or waiting for it to end.
Waiting for nothing. Waiting for Godot.
Robert Grudin (author of Time and
the
Art of Living) is quoted as saying: In the
landscape
of
time, there are few locations less comfortable than
that of one who waits for some person or event to
arrive at some unknown moment in the future.
Yes, waiting is often uncomfortable. Sometimes
waiting creates happy, excited feelings, perhaps a
sense of delicious anticipation. More often, it leads to
more uncomfortable emotions: nervousness, anxiety,
fear, sadness, impatience, frustration, or boredom.
Yet it is these very feelings that eventually move us
through a waiting period and into action.
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The waiting periods of our life are inevitable and
necessary. They are periods of rest, renewal,
regrouping, time-outs, introspection, completion,
creativity, re-invention, and transformation. They are
not wasted times. On the contrary, they are often times
that provide great growth - sometimes quantum
transformational leaps.
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| A Halloween Treat |
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Probably everything you always wanted to know about
Halloween, but didn't ask, can be found on this site.
Boo!
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| YouTube Song: Waiting For My Real Life To Begin |
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Colin Hay's lyrics about waiting are entertainment and
message enough. But for those of you who are
Scrubs fans, this video adds an extra
dimension.
Open up your heart, let the light shine in.
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| YouTube Song: Anticipation |
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Carly Simon - live rehearsal on Martha's Vineyard,
1987.
Enjoy!
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| Gratitude Article Cited on 'Gratitude Watch' |
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Connie's Blog article, On Loss, Gratitude, and
Moving On, was cited in the Gratitude
Watch section of the Web site, The Meaning of
Existance [and all that]: The Curmugeon's Guide to
Spirituality by Daniel Brenton.
This is a fascinating site, filled with resources on the
subject of Gratitude and other topics.
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| About Daylight Saving Time |
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Explore this article - Daylight Savings Time
2009: When and Why We Fall Back - on the
Web site for National Geographic News.
A factoid: The "official" term for this event is "Daylight
Saving Time" not "Daylight Savings Time."
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Enterprises, with tips, quotes, and short articles
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