Change. . .
Sometimes I have to be dragged and kicking to make one. I'll dance around the "make a change/remain the same" circle for a very looooooooong time. Then when I jump into middle to change, I hurtle along and can't get to the end result fast enough to suit me.
This newsletter is a perfect example. It has taken me two years from first looking into Constant Contact to get to this point. Now that I am in for the penny,
why not go in for the pound, too, and add a blog at the same time! Why a blog? I have wanted an easy means of sharing photos taken at events. Now I can. Sometimes I want to riff on an idea that presents itself between newsletters. Now I can. I invite you on the journey as I work to master both. And I invite myself to approach achieving this mastery in the same way I approach my annual Christmas tradition with my nieces and nephews.
For almost two decades I have given each of them a Christmas ornament with the idea that when they leave home, their own Christmas trees will have a head start on decorations. The tradition has evolved over the years. At first, I searched high and low to find and purchase the exactly right ornaments. Now I make them for nine nieces and nephews who range in age from 22 to 5. Each year's ornament is a variation on a theme or nine riffs on one idea. Every year, I put it out to the universe that I am looking for "the ornament." Every year, I have absolute and supreme confidence that the right idea will come to me in the fullness of time. And it does.
And when the idea comes to me, I revel in the whole creative process that unfolds. The conversations I have with my art teacher best friend about the crafting of it. The searching for the right materials. The mulling over of techniques. Never do I despair that it will manifest itself in the way that it needs to. And it does.
I want to approach learning about newsletter writing and all of the other aspects of e-mail marketing with the same supreme confidence that what I need to learn will manifest itself in the fullness of time. And I want to welcome the serendipitous detours I take on this journey that lead to even more changes like starting this blog! Oh, what a year it will be!
Look below at photos from First Lights, our last event of 2007. And in mid January, look for photos from our first event of 2008!
