As I prepare for the next few weeks, I’m feeling overwhelmed. This is not how I like to feel.
My personality says I’m on the organized side. When I first took the typology test when I enrolled in the Equine Gestalt Coaching® program and Melisa discussed my results with me I didn’t see how this could be. I’m not highly organized. My house is a mess and I’m dependable to be one of the last people to show up for an event.
I’ve come to find out that my organization is situational. My computer files are organized – at least I think that someone else would think they are. When I was teaching in Goodland, I would often forget my computer files and would call Mike to have him send them to me. I’d tell him how to log onto my computer, where to find the folders, which files I needed, and how to send them.
Another situation where I’m organized is in my schedule. I have long kept everything on a calendar. First a paper calendar, now in my electronic brain, and frankly I don’t know what I did before I could set audible reminders for events. Anytime Mike was asked to schedule an appointment he would send the person to me. While I’m usually good with my schedule I get restless if something is changed.
Last night I was scheduling dinner with a couple of friends before I leave. Could I go Monday? Yes, at 7:00 after my Zoom meeting. Then the other friend had a meeting. Could I go Tuesday? Yes, that would be better. Then I remembered that depending on the timing of taking possession of the property on Wednesday I may have to leave Tuesday and as I get older, I like to avoid “night marches” as another friend called them. I feel pretty confident that the possession is mid-afternoon so I can leave Wednesday morning so at this point I have left the dinner for Tuesday.
About the move, there are so many things up in the air right now. I can’t fully move until the horses do and once that happens, I need to be moved so I can take care of them as I don’t know anyone in the area to help me yet. Except for a few antiques that mean a lot to me I’m not taking much furniture. However, I have two antique vehicles and an antique piece of equipment to move as well. The horses are going to take two trailers and I don’t have one.
Just like the sale of the land here and the purchase of the land in eastern Kansas, there are a lot of moving parts. That can get chaotic, and I get overwhelmed. I need to remember that as Melisa says as long as I have muzzles to nuzzle all will be right with the world. When the horses and I get moved we’ll all be in one place, which hasn’t happened in over 30 years, and I’ll be able to walk out and nuzzle those muzzles any time I want.
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