Surrounded by boxes - An Invitiation To Pause | Ep 23

Right now, life is a little bit frantic. 

4 Day Business retreat, container shipment at Day job plus moving home, all in the space of a week leaves little time for me. 

My invitiation to you, if you're in a similar all or nothing situation is to find just five minutes to sit with a cuppa, go outside for a walk or just sit and take some deep breaths, knowing this is temporary and not permanent 

It is the exact reason I have paused the next line dance block.  You can join the waitlist and there may be some cheeky bonuses for those who join from the waitlist - https://feelthebeats.co.uk/in-line-on-beat/

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Transcript

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Hello and welcome back. So, for those of you who are watching the video version of this, you'll notice a change in the background yet again. But no, I have not moved. Um, we have recently got rid of the sofa, so in the lounge, where I'm having to do these podcast episodes at the moment. Um, I'm in our IKEA rocker, and all of the pictures have been taken off the walls, so I'm currently in a very white hauled room. I don't like it, there's no personality in it anymore. Um, but I am surrounded by boxes. Boxes and boxes and boxes, and there's still more packing to do, but you know, it'll happen. Um, because at the time of recording this, we have just exchanged contracts, which means that next week we move into our first home. It's finally happening, and so soon I will be in my better setup for podcast recording, and we'll be back to normality of better video and better audio. Although, do let me know, like, does the microphone make a difference? Because I'm not sure. Um hint, I don't tend to listen to my episodes. Um, I literally hit record, tweak the beginning and ending, and post it and hope for the best. I lit don't do any editing currently of my podcast, so I don't know how it sounds. Like, I listen to enough to know that it's okay. Um, but it'd be interesting to see. Do you find a difference when I use the laptop video um mic compared to my actual mic? Is there a difference for you as a listener watcher? Let me know. Um, so today's episode, because that's not what I wanted to talk about, but today's episode is kind of another reminder to look after you and find the time to look after you. Um, so we're currently moving. I'm about to go on a four-day um business thing. Um, and then I've got a container at work, and then we actually move. So it's a lot, like there's a lot going on right now, and I feel a little bit in fight or flight mode, particularly because I'm not really in work next week ahead of the container. Um, so I'm kind of trusting my colleagues to get everything ready. Um, and there'll be fab and they'll get everything done, but I just feel a little bit panicked because I'm not there kind of overseeing and just knowing what's going on, um, which is just bizarre. So I was like, right, next year I am not taking holiday near a container, and bless her. My colleague in Canada was like, absolutely not. Your life does not revolve around containers. You take your holiday, we will be fine. Like, life comes first. I was like, I could hug you right now. Um, so thank you. Um, so yeah, I just feel a bit, I think it's the planner and the organizer in me that I'm like, I'm trusting other people to do this, and I'm not there. And I'm coming back on Wednesday to find out where we're at. Um, so yeah, but it'll be fine because I do that and then I move into our first time. Ah, it's all exciting. But yeah, this is my reminder to you that life will have those moments where it is literally all or nothing. And you can feel like a duck on water, um, where you on the outside you look all calm and serene, but underneath your feet are frantically flapping, and that is me. I I know that internally I'm frantically flapping. Um, because my mum the other day said, Oh, your dark circles are back. I can tell that you're you're feeling it, you're feeling the pressure, and it's true. I am, I'm feeling the pressure, it's just like it's all at once, but it'll be okay because it's not permanent, it is a temporary thing, and even trying to organize the final bit, so paying the balance for our new bird that we've bought, the website wasn't working to allow me to do the payment, so I've had to phone them to do the payment. Um, updating our contents and insurance, the website wasn't working, I've had to ring them to and it's just all these things that we kind of take for granted. We want it to be really simple, it's not, it's become an extra challenge, and it puts the pressure on because you're at work, you're trying to do this, you're trying to do that. So find the moments to breathe, and that's what I'm looking forward to on these next four days. Um, is being able to breathe, just have the peace, but then also gain the clarity of going okay, once you've moved, you will then redo line dance. So I've paused the line dance because right now I am literally surrounded by boxes. As much as I say you don't need a lot of space, I literally have no space really to do anything, which is not great when you're trying to demonstrate. So I've paused them. Partly also because of like I just wasn't in the right headspace to be teaching anything. So I've paused them, and once I'm settled and in my new house, I will then redo the line dance classes. So I will put the wait list link in the comments in the show notes so that you can get yourself on the wait list because there may be some cheeky bonuses for those of you that do join the wait list. Um, and it can all start again, and it feels very cyclical, it feels very ironic that this time last year I had just left the company that I'd been working with for the last four and a half years. I'd started with my now company, so it feels very kind of, and I think I've said this before that kind of March is obviously my key time because March 25 started a new job, changed my business. March 26, buying a house, and moving into the next chapter of being adults, being homeowners with a garden. Like the weather in the UK is now perfect timing. That once we've moved, I can sit in my garden with a cup of tea in the morning and read my book. In my garden! Like ah, just so it feels very yeah. I don't know what the word is cyclical, kind of symbolic, new beginnings and all that. That it's Easter, um, it will be our anniversary. Um so yeah, it's all it's all the things, and I just need that moment to go. It's okay. It's a momentary pressure, and then it's done, and then I can chill and kind of recalibrate, realign, figure out what's happening for Q2. Um, because Q1 was kind of panned, and then house literally took over, and it's like, okay, Q1 is just not happening. So it's like, okay, let's let's realign. The year's not written off, you've still got another three quarters. So what what's Q2 got in store? Where do we want to go? I've got a couple of inquiries coming in, so yeah, it's it's good, but it's a lot. So if you're feeling a lot, it's okay. Take the moment. Even if you just need to sit in the chair with your eyes shut and doing some deep breathing, breathing in for four, holding for four, and out for four, if that's what you need to do, do it. If you just need to go outside and put your feet on the ground, not in shoes, do it. Take a moment. And know that it's okay and that it's not permanent. And if you need some help, if you're like, I just I just need to talk to someone, drop me a message because my DMs are open. Um yeah. So that's my message to you today. Breathe. Relax. It's okay. Um, but yeah, I'm surrounded by boxes. How do two people who live in a flat own so much stuff? I keep finding things that I'd forgotten about. That I kind of do need. I don't I can't get rid of them. I probably could get rid of them, but at the minute I can't get rid of them. Uh yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. Um so yeah. I see you. If this is also you. So until next time, I will catch you on the next episode when I'll be back from the retreat. I'll have moved home. Uh, or be in the process of doing the actual move. Um and yeah, let's see what exciting things happen next time. So speech will soon.