I was challenged by my coach to write a blog around “I’m just waiting..” I am using the term too often.  I mean, what it is I am waiting for? Maybe like me, you too stood still somewhere and had someone come up and ask if you are alright?  Often my response is “Yes thanks, I’m fine, I’m just waiting….”

I might be waiting to meet someone, waiting for someone to pick me up, a taxi, or maybe just waiting for the enterprise to BEAM ME UP SCOTTY! Whatever it is that I am really waiting for, it is an indication to the person that someone or something will be along to help me soon. Perhaps when that something arrives, I won’t look so alone and needy?  Note to self: Maybe there is a method to the madness of looking down at one’s cell phone while “waiting”.

There are a lot of tasks around the house that I have to wait for so that I can continue with the work that I really want to do.  For example, the few posts already about what it is that I need to do in order for my workshop space to be usable for the public.  It was a huge waiting game of needing help with lifting heavy furniture, emptying or shifting boxes so said furniture could go in just the right spots as so on.  I’m sure many of you have had the same “in waiting’ experiences many times!  

I guess I’m just waiting, or it’s just waiting, are indications of a sequence of events that need to be done in a prioritised fashion. And maybe it’s the way my mind works or has been conditioned to formulate sequence.  There are certain activities that do not have to be rigidly done in a particular order, as it won’t affect the outcome, yet there are many where the I’m just waiting ensures the outcome is a success and not a raging disaster.

My sister is a cake decorator, an extremely good one at that!  And there is a lot of “I’m just waiting” involved. Think about it, the decorations are no good if they go on the cake before the final layer of icing, are they?  It’s a bit pointless if the recipient of the cake can’t see the beautiful decorations she wanted. So my point here is that there are times when the “I’m just waiting” is justified. Let’s just wait until the final layer of icing goes on the cake before the decorations go on.

There is another message in here that you may not have found yet.  And that is that sometimes I can wait too long.  This is where my coach was going with her comment.  Why am I waiting?  For as many times that I really do need to wait, there are probably just as many more, where if I act quickly I can gain good leverage on time, energy, people’s goodwill or the best deal with the best client or even get all the emails answered before breakfast! And all of this gives me more time to be creative and enjoy the feeling of being with what I love to do.

So what are you waiting for?