A Few (Quick) Thoughts

I am in a hurry today. Always, but particularly today.?

Thursday last week THIS is due NOW. I write and I have been out and about all morning, and now back to the office to deal with the daily real estate emergencies.?

The phone won’t stop ringing.?

I have about an hour before I need to fly out the door again. I am keeping it short.?

Because it’s that time of the year, right??

At the end of last week’s post, I wrote the most important part of the message. Maybe of the whole year. Here it is in case you clicked off before reading that far:

“If you are in a rut of any sort don’t underestimate the importance of getting help from an experienced professional. Life is too short and too busy to suffer in silence.”

Amongst the pressure the end of the year brings opportunities for growth, improvement and thinking about some plans for 2024. Maybe ‘getting help for….’ is something to throw up on a whiteboard or in the diary to think about over summer.?

I was thinking about how a small positive act can have a disproportionately large positive effect.??

Take the rather vague concept of support.?

The other day I spoke to a mate who has been through a tough patch and I apologized. I said ‘I am sorry I was not really able to physically help you at all through this’.

I had felt a bit helpless because I could not do anything to assist his situation.?

‘Na mate’ he said, ‘you were there for me the whole time’

What I find amazing is that a text, a phone call, or a quick coffee catch up can ‘support’ someone. And what I think makes us humans a bit ‘strange’ is that sometimes that is enough.? It doesn’t really take much to make someone feel better, and it’s so intangible.?

While shelter, food, and water will keep us alive, it’s that other part, that social bit of us, that part that knowing that someone cares enough just to stop and take a few moments that makes someone feel supported, heard and of value.