Finding Time for Patience ... and for Letting Go

The Time Finder with Paula Eder

The way you use your time is the way you live your life.

Finding Time for Patience … and for Letting Go

Posted on July 23, 2009, under Time Management Skills.

Finding time for what matters most does not simply involve getting things done as efficiently and effectively as possible. Sometimes it means knowing when to step back and let go.

If you are a reader of The Time Finder blog – or a subscriber to the Finding Time E-zine and/or Tips, you know that our Finding Time, LLC site went down last week when our web host suddenly and mysteriously disappeared off the face of the earth.

We learned lots of lessons in the process of bringing our website and infrastructure back. Among them were lessons about staying calm, taking things one step at a time, and letting change unfold! We also learned about the importance of backing up everything!

This morning we are embarking on the last big piece of the work of reconstituting Finding Time, LLC – that of moving our mailing lists over to our new e-mail provider and shopping cart – Kick Start Cart. This has entailed a lot of behind-the-scenes work, as we activated all the necessary mechanisms in the new cart and got our lists ready for the importing process.

Now we wait for our preparations to be approved – then an e-mail will go out to each of our subscribers who was in the old system. (We hope that this will happen today, but we can’t control the timing of this step.) Each subscriber must click the confirmation link in the e-mail. That will tell the system that it’s okay to add that name and e-mail address to the new cart. (Our newer subscribers are already in Kick Start Cart – this only applies to those who were in the older system.)

So, this is where we need to find time for patience and for letting go! Having done everything that we can, the next stages of this process are not in our hands. For people who like to be proactive and on top of things, this can be a challenging time.

I like to think of this as an opportunity to exhale, open my hands and, for now, consciously and gently give this over to the universe.

If you’re a subscriber, be on the lookout for our confirmation e-mail and click the link when it arrives. (Meanwhile, we’ll be patiently breathing and letting go!)

How do you balance being proactive and letting go? Is this a challenge for you? Please drop me a line – I’d love to hear!

What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up and download The New Finding Time Boundary Template. It’s FREE, and when you sign up you will also receive (if you don’t already) my FREE, weekly Finding Time Tips and my FREE, monthly Award-Winning Finding Time E-zine!

Let’s explore time together …

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