Calendar Girl Blog: Energy Allocation
February Blah's Eve is upon us. Finally, a date that truly reflects my mood. At least for the moment. Lord knows my moods are swinging like apes in a jungle right now. One minute, I'm delighted with everything. Content. Pleased. Solid in my self. The next, I'm completely unsure of what to do, how to be, where to put my flucuating energy.
I suspect much of this uncertainty is part of my menopause...what a delightful bag of tricks that is turning out to be. But I am blurring the blog lines by mentioning that hot new feature of my life in this blog.
This past weekend, I hosted the Information Table at the Organic Agriculture Conference. This was my forth year on the job. As part of the deal, I was given permission to sell 2006 calendars without paying for table space.
In past years, I ended up selling 20 calendars. At least 200 other people stop by and have a look, a reaction, then carry on. In prior years, I would engage everyone, buyers and non-buyers alike in lots of chat, explanation, energy and effort.
This year, for many reasons, I changed my approach. I let the calendar sell itself and instead of chatting everyone up, I left them all alone. I still sold 20 calendars. The many chats of previous years turned into a few deeper conversations that were satisfying and reflective. I left the three day affair exhausted, but not spent.
Calendar Girl is looking for the key to the car that will drive the 2007 calendar through the next several months. She needs to get on with the production so to speak. Photo submissions need to be sorted, text mapped out, distribution firmed up. But she needs to change her approach so that the entire affair does not leave her spent.
It's time for the year's energy allocation to be made. The calendar is going to get less.
Calendar Girl
Tags: Calendar Girl Blog, Breast of Canada Calendar, Blog, 2007 Calendar.
I suspect much of this uncertainty is part of my menopause...what a delightful bag of tricks that is turning out to be. But I am blurring the blog lines by mentioning that hot new feature of my life in this blog.
This past weekend, I hosted the Information Table at the Organic Agriculture Conference. This was my forth year on the job. As part of the deal, I was given permission to sell 2006 calendars without paying for table space.
In past years, I ended up selling 20 calendars. At least 200 other people stop by and have a look, a reaction, then carry on. In prior years, I would engage everyone, buyers and non-buyers alike in lots of chat, explanation, energy and effort.
This year, for many reasons, I changed my approach. I let the calendar sell itself and instead of chatting everyone up, I left them all alone. I still sold 20 calendars. The many chats of previous years turned into a few deeper conversations that were satisfying and reflective. I left the three day affair exhausted, but not spent.
Calendar Girl is looking for the key to the car that will drive the 2007 calendar through the next several months. She needs to get on with the production so to speak. Photo submissions need to be sorted, text mapped out, distribution firmed up. But she needs to change her approach so that the entire affair does not leave her spent.
It's time for the year's energy allocation to be made. The calendar is going to get less.
Calendar Girl
Tags: Calendar Girl Blog, Breast of Canada Calendar, Blog, 2007 Calendar.
posted by Sue Richards at 11:38 AM
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