A dream with a deadline

A goal.

The last weekend didn’t really happen as I’ve planned for.

During last week we conducted interviews for our Virtual Assistant and we had the pleasure to meet three amazing girls and we’ve chosen Maricel Jaducana as our new team member. You’ll start to see her name in your inbox if you are one of our existing customers and you write to our customer support service.

So, my Saturday started as usual with my morning exercise routine and then I’ve spent the rest of the morning trying to get things out from my head on paper.

If you have ever been in the position to delegate anything to someone, you know how it feels. You sit with a piece of paper in front of you and you start writing down how you do it. At first, it was just a few lines. Then it comes more, and then more… then, even more.

As I started thinking about how I do it, it came to mind that it would be even better if I record myself doing it and enclosed it into the instruction.

So, this is what I did for the whole morning and planned to spend my afternoon with... until... my wife stepped into my office with a smiling face after a phone call she had with her sister and asked me to stop for a moment as she had something important to speak with me.

She took my hand and pulled me out of my office into the living room where we both sat and look at each other. All kinds of scenarios went on in my head not knowing what was in her head and the few seconds of silence before she started sharing seemed an eternity to me.

She looked down at the carpet and then with a strong voice she briefly looked at me and said: "I want us to buy an apartment". And then she started to bring arguments to why she wants it, looking for a positive answer from my side.

Honestly, I didn’t expect that and it took me by surprise as in my view it seemed a new topic out of nowhere but not for her. It was one that has been on her mind for long.

The start of this conversation changed completely the dynamic and the outcome of the day.

Earlier that day, as we took our coffee on the balcony in the fresh morning breeze, we discussed our plans for the business and how I would end one of my big assignments to be able to prioritize and focus on serving you better.

All of the sudden, when Florina started to realized that her dream to own a house was going to be delayed if I end my assignment with Volvo, then she started to look for solutions, hence her conversation with her sister.

She might look as she was working on the lesson she will deliver tonight as part of Become Your Best Version Lessons, but her mind was at work.

Now, when she had a two-week deadline until the end of the month, now she did everything needed for her dream to come true. She persuaded her sister to borrow her some money for the down payment, she persuaded me that this is extremely important for her, for us and the peace of mind she would get from living in our own house.

And I say house, for when we seriously thought about it, we prefer to live in a house even if is an "apart-house" as I call it (r?dhus for the Swedes) instead of living in an apartment. It features the benefits of having a small yard, an outside terrace with grass and the basic benefits of living in a house without the work to cut the grass and take care of the yard as the building is managed by the owners' association and against a monthly fee I’m more than happy to pay, they handle all that for us so we enjoy more of what we like to do.

So, long story short, we ended up to spend our Saturday afternoon looking for a newly build house that fits our needs and we even visited three areas around the city to see how do we feel moving there.

By the end of the day we had two choices left and one of them was up for viewing on Sunday at 2 pm. You can imagine how we spent our Sunday afternoon.

It was a match.

We book it and it will be ours.

If all works as planned and I can’t see why it shouldn’t, we will be moving in a couple of weeks time.

Do you see what a deadline makes us do?

I cannot tell you the numbers of times Florina came up with the idea of buying a house. She looked into the market place for what’s available, then she looks in the bank account and since the money was not there, she let go of her dream… for a while.

Until a few months later, the same dream came again into her awareness seeking expression in the physical world. It became an all-consuming obsession she couldn’t escape until it will be manifested into reality.

What’s one dream you keep postponing?

When would you add a deadline to it?

Food for thought.

Wish you a productive week.