Woke up this morning with the outside temperature showing -7 degrees Celsius and a 5 cm pile of snow glistening on the ground... Stunning! The snowflakes were sailing down from the sky in a slow-motion pace, soft and silent... I found myself being moved, sentimental and just happy! Happy that the snow finally showed up, happy because I felt like a kid again, happy because I want to share tumbling in the snow with Axel and Leah, roll in the snow, race downhill with their snow-racers.... Such joy for such a simple thing - Simply magic!
Yapp, we spent the afternoon on the snow-racers, laughing and having fun, eating gingerbread cookies wrapped up in aluminium foil and drinking hot chocolate. A precious moment!
Earlier this morning, after dropping off the kids at school and daycare, I took off into work being well aware that the snow chaos would cause trouble for the traffic - and I was right - there seemed to be lots of challenged cyclists caught off guard spinning around on the sidewalks, cars crawling at 30 km/hour.... - slooooooowly! I chose to enjoy the moment of just being in the moment - letting myself arrive when I arrive, so to speak! Great feeling. I started listening to a woman called Susanne Pettersson who is a guru at 'change management' for individuals, teams and organisations; Susanne shared some great stories around leadership and that it all starts with 'pacing'. I must pace with people in my team, organisation before I start leading ie I must understand their situation and create trust before I start leading them, without pacing I will not be able to lead succesfully - well, by force - but how well does that work??? I came to think in particular about our children - how we as parents most often jump straight into leading instead of pacing ourselves with them which will lead to much more joy, understanding and jointly reach the point of 'mutual success' which could be an agreement and/or both of us getting want we want/desire..... Parenthood is fascinating and yet difficult - lots of fun, love and magic - at the same time can be frustrating, scary and hard.... For me it is important to be able to admit that I 'did something wrong' and say I am sorry when and if I realise this is the case... Children are sooo smart and so fun to be with - it is only when I get caught up in all the 'drama' or must do's when I forget to cherish those golden moments! ... and miss out cause I am the one who misses out!
So from a morning with a Xmas picture perfect outside my window, to a unsatisfying working day to a fabulous late afternoon in the snow with my children, to falling asleep on the couch during the kids TV program, to enjoying a moment in front of the fire with my love Lars, to getting pissed off over a discussion about money, to now writing my blog and in a moment ending my 21st December 2009 (which has the shortest daylight of the year for us here in Scandinavia, by the way) with a session of BodyBalance - I wish you a sensational Xmas & A phenomenal New Year! Keep in touch!
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