Busy day at the office today! I’ve temporarily taken over as the managing editor of RealNetworks’ women’s entertainment property, LillyLikes.com. It’s exciting to have a new opportunity, but it’s also more work on my plate. Luckily, we’re going to get to share and reuse content from Zelda Lily (the similarity in the names is pure coincidence), so I’ll get to work with the women I hired and whom I love, and hopefully help create more opportunities for them. And I’m still looking at other opportunities within the company that I’m pretty excited about.
I had a talk with a friend the other day about how I feel stagnant right now. “We all go through periods like that,” she said. “But something will happen, something external will change, and you’ll feel like you’re moving forward again.” And it was good to think about it like that. When I feel stagnant like this, I tend to think it’s all my fault — I’m not doing something right, I should be doing something more, and I can’t figure out what, and my wheels are just spinning in the mud, so I deem the situation hopeless and get really upset about it. I feel like nothing will ever change for the rest of my life and there’s nothing I can do about it. But her comment helped me to realize that maybe I don’t have to do anything. I mean, as my father loves to say, “90% of success is just showing up.” Obviously I need to continue putting one foot in front of the other and actively pursue opportunities and change, but it’s not all up to me. The world changes. People change, things shift, gaps are created that need to be filled. The universe does this without any help on my part. And the universe will ensure that I am exactly where I need to be, doing exactly what I need to be doing. It’s not all on my shoulders. In fact, very little of it is on my shoulders. All I have to do is show up, the rest will work itself out.
