OK, I’ll warn you at the beginning; this is probably going to ramble a bit.

This whole “blog” thing still has me a bit perplexed.  While at WPPI, I discussed the social networking thing with as many people as I could and got as many opinions as there are colors in Crayola’s Big Box Of Every Color In The World crayons!  Is this blog for me?  Is this blog for the industry?  How self indulgent can I be?  For years I’ve stood on a platform of “It’s never about you, it’s only about the client”, and here I am spilling my guts about what we’re doing and how we feel as we do it.  Is this OK?  I’m really not sure, but it’s the direction I’m going to take for a while.  Let’s see what happens!

So, you may or may not have noticed that there’s been a gap in my postings.  My intentions were to continue posting right after WPPI and stay consistent.  My best intentions were met with massive resistance from life in general!  Which leads right in to the question, are happiness coaches happy all of the time?  Yes, this is a real question we were asked!  The answer is, NO!  Of course not!  Life happens to throw us stuff that isn’t very happy and we each have our own ways of dealing with it.  I will say that as a happiness coach, my goal is to bounce back from adversity quicker than the average person and I’m very pleased to say that most of the time that’s what I do.  The times right before and right after WPPI were another story!

*** WARNING – THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH CONTAINS WHINING! ***

My biggest fear before WPPI each year is catching a cold.  Yes, it happened and yes I took EVERY medication known to man.  It subsided while at the convention, but I wasn’t 100%.  I just didn’t feel good!  My mom was moved to a dementia unit at the nursing home the day before we left for Vegas; again, not an easy thing for me to put on the back burner.  While at WPPI, we did have an incredible time.  Huge THANK YOU’s to all of you who made yourselves available to us with help in the suite and at the programs!  Seeing our friends/clients (it’s one in the same) was a massive boost for me!  When we got home, we thought everything would just calm right down and we would be massively productive!  HA!  That’s when life started throwing more of those dreaded curve balls!  My cold made a comeback; I started having some really painful back/kidney issues; our teleseminar phone system broke; a virus made its way into my computer; our puppies had to be rushed to the emergency hospital at midnight; my mom’s dementia seemed to get worse and my email stopped working!  I felt like I was in a batting cage, duct taped to the backstop without a bat!  Was I happy during any of that?  What do you think!

Oh my gosh!  I just admitted that we go through all of the stuff that you go through and we don’t always react in the manner that we would want you to react in!  That’s life!

Today is a better day.  We got through all of the yucky stuff.  Will some of it pop up again?  Of course!  The object is, don’t let it stop you.  Don’t let it change your positive core.  I AM a happiness coach and I knew that I would get through the last three weeks.  Did the last three weeks work out the way I wanted them to?  No they didn’t, but now I’m back, I’m positive, I’m focused and I’m ready to use the lessons I’ve just experienced to help you when you have a bad stretch.

What did I say this blog was going to be about in one of my first posts?  This is about what goes on behind the scenes, in the minds of happiness coaches.  There you have it.  The last three weeks; unedited and definitely NOT sugar coated!

Later,

Jer