Tomorrow is Another Day to be Stellar

We recently traveled out West for a wedding. It was a great trip and wonderful to be somewhere unfamiliar. I brought along brown toned paper, and forget pens…duh! So we hunted for an arts and crafts store. We found a national chain and there was a sale, so I bought a new set of acrylic brush markers. Upon leaving the store we found a local deli and ate lunch. I was inspired by a sign over the counter, and created the letters to reflect that inspiration.

The prompt I was working to fulfill was to create something to exemplify the transition from Sprint/Summer to Fall. As I sat in our hotel room and worked, while my hubby rested and snored, I enjoyed the peace and quiet of working to fulfill the prompt, and the challenge of being behind the eight ball. I wasn’t prepared and yet was having fun improvising! The unknown was exciting and a bit thrilling, on top of making me anxious. I was behind and I knew it.

Sometimes we find ourselves behind, for a multitude of reasons. We didn’t prepare, we didn’t plan, we made a mistake, we were caught off guard, we were surprised, or maybe it’s just one of those days when life throws us more curve balls than we are ready to handle. For whatever reason, it is not about always being prepared, it is more about how we handle being unprepared. Life is not always filled with clean lines and prefect days. Real life is about handling the mess that gets thrown our way, the mess we create, or the mess others impose on us AND taking all that in stride with a good attitude.

Let’s face it, we all know the drama generators who LOVE to wax on and on about the terrible thing that has overtaken their thoughts and time. How they are overwhelmed, a victim, to be pitied or how they need us to shed some of our magic dust to make them the center of attention because of their latest drama. And today’s drama will turn into a story we hear often, too often, and tomorrow’s drama will be here before we know it. And sometimes, when we take a good look at ourselves, we realize WE are the one generating the needless drama in our lives. More than we want to admit, we are the one who put ourselves in this situation…again!

So I sat in the quiet, snore filled space and enjoyed the process. We figured out the need and found a way to fill it. Is this my best work? Not really, not even close. Did it fulfill the prompt, absolutely…and I got it done before the deadline. And while it was drying, I took a short nap and enjoyed the ability to do so.

Let me encourage you to give yourself a break. Dramas come and dramas go. We generate them, we are dealt them, or other people plop them in out laps. Life isn’t always neat a tidy. Sometimes our best days are the ones where we filled the need then took a nap. The work got done, good enough, and now it’s time to move on. When the drama and mess arrive – which they will – work to keep a heathy perspective. In the whole scheme of things, perfection and deadlines do not always go together well. Sometimes the deadline means we need to do the work and move on…tomorrow is another day to be stellar!