What Would You Do With A Blank Slate

When Rachel’s not coaching working mothers or listening to an infinite soundtrack of podcasts, she’s hanging out together with her 8 and 5 yr old daughtersâ€"who rock her world. When she told her older daughter, Jane, that she was a coachâ€"explaining that other working mothers tell her their hopes and goals and he or she helps them make their desires come true, Jane looked her lifeless within the eyes and said, “Mom, that’s not a job.” Since then, Jane has learned that women and moms can run their very own profitable businesses and that individuals can change their careersâ€"even at forty (which to Jane may be very, very old)! Rachel is most herself when she’s connecting individuals to one another, to issues, to no matter they may need and as a resultâ€"she is the Kevin Bacon of her neighborhood. Her friends affectionately name this phenomenon, “The Rachel Garrett Explosion.” Rachel lives together with her husband and daughters in Park Slope, Brooklyn and is a proud lifelong New Yorker. What Would You Do With A Blank Slate? Writing on January 2nd is difficult. The potentialities are infiniteâ€"and but so are the expectations. I want to bounce into my 12 months with a karate chop slicing by way of a cinder block, but I’m nonetheless processing my vacation break reflection, uncertainty about the new year to come back and my exhaustion from entertaining two youngsters for almost two weeks straight. That’s plenty of child time for this working mother (Respect, stay at home mother and father.). By far the most challenging a part of starting contemporary this week is starting contemporary. Taking a step into a pure white canvas and bringing to it my inevitable mess. My optimistic, formidable, well-that means, out of practice, fearful, unrested mess. In my head there’s a dance celebration of perfect, pristine photographs that refuse to hook up with words. So my aim right now: allow them to dance. Be where I am, which may be precisely where I need to be. And the place am I? 2018 was an exciting and profit able yr professionally, however an intense and exhausting yr on the non-public entrance. On top of living the busy life of a working mother of two, caregiving for my uncle with Parkinson’s kicked up a notch this yr and moved into the foreground of my personal priorities. Heading into 2019 with even greater objectives for each business progress and writing initiatives whereas persevering with to navigate my uncle’s careâ€"leaves me with the worry that doing all I have deliberate may not be possible. This is the worry that winks at my empty page, my blinking cursor, my new yr, my blank slate. But I don’t need to choose it as I typically did in 2018. I fed that beast with stress and resentment and false helplessness. That is just not who I am, however I was tired and offended. My work, my follow this year is to forgive myself for stewing and to excise that thought with surgical precision. In the face of my new 12 months with infinite possibilities, I vow to: 1. Actively select to consider what I need is possible. 2. See the sweetness within the mess. The mess means I’m bringing all that I am, including my fear to the work. This is what it looks like if you forge ahead regardless of all the reasons not to take action. There will at all times be excuses to stand in one place. You needn't look far to search out them. When you ignore them, step into the uncertainty and problem the naysaying together with your action, yow will discover new confidence in course correcting back to your distinctive path. My path contains uncovering my fears and my solace in writing and inspiring and being impressed by my unimaginable purchasersâ€"all while triaging a number of calls a day from and about my uncle. It is each beauty and mess and in addition fraught with lessons which are mine for the learning. I'm a coach, a spouse, a life-long Joni Mitchell fan, and a individuals connector, but by far the job I’m most proud ofâ€"is being a mom to my two daughters, Jane and Roxan ne. I supply Career and Leadership Coaching to ladies after the life-altering and mind-blowing milestone of becoming a mom. By partnering with girls to extra intently align their lives with their values, passions and strengths, I assist them really feel accomplished and assured in each profession and motherhood.