Annette Trucke

Life is packed with opportunity to “Re.” Just think of all the words we can add that prefix to, like–“reinvent.” I love that one.

We have the prerogative to adjust and reconfigure even if we are boldly going in one direction and find we would or should go in another. I just had a couple of conversations with a couple of friends this week about permissions to “Re.”

One friend and I dream and strategically plan often. We are creative and have the ability to make things happen. Yet, we don’t always follow through with every grand dream we come up with. And, that’s just fine. What I like about our friendship is that we give each other space and choice; we always have take-away from our visions, whether they have played out (yet!) or not.

As I told another friend how that works so well I could see relief come across her brow. Pressure was removed. She too can move forward with new daring dreams without worrying because she can “Re” as need be. Timelines can be “reconfigured” or “reconstructed.” Projects can be “reordered” as need be.

I am not saying that everything should be chaotic and in constant change. Rather we have choices to “remove” what should not be in the picture and “replace it with better” and we need to allow ourselves and others liberty to do so. This especially plays true for creative types as well as the whole lot of humanity.

Do you have people you can dream with? Do you allow yourself to dream and then to try new ideas? There is a lot of freedom in relationships that allow one another space to think and live out loud without being judged. How many of us would try more incredible and new adventures or ventures–if we had someone that said, “Try it, you may like it–it may be your niche and your legacy!”

In what areas do you see room to use the “Re?”

(Notice all of the erasings on the chalkboard in the photo of Einstein?)

Call me if you would like some “reassurance” along with strategy, connections, implementation, and creativity to pull off your dream.

~Annette

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face your activity

At first it was taped to my refrigerator, then it was laying on my kitchen window sill. I just now found it under my jewelry cabinet in my bedroom. I’ve known that I needed to write about this sticky note almost from the time the occupational therapist came to my home and started training me on how to move well without further injury to my back (prior to the surgery that resolved so much of the injury post op). She was a great asset to me with her sticky notes and fun attitude.

“Face Your Activity” she wrote. Of course she meant no weird twisting and such, keeping my core directed at whatever it was I was working on. Yet I’ve continued thinking how this is what we all must do so often: face our activities.

I find it curious that I just now found the note again. Today I have found myself doing everything other than my “activity” of importance today. I went here and there, to a meeting, to do some errands, returns… But what I really needed to do is to make my brother Ed’s (Edward Neil Jeremiah) memorial service programs.

Of course I will pull it off. I work well under pressure. I am reliable with things like this. But I would rather not “face my activity” right now. Though on one hand I honestly rejoice with my brother passing into Heaven, the loss to all of us is something I would rather delay—in fact, I would rather turn the other direction.

I have thought about this sticky note time and again. It pertains to me in a tough way today. But other days, we have “activities” that are positive, though challenging, which we just need to face so that we can do it. Humans find so many ways to not square-up to what needs to be done—even when it is something as fantastic as making a dream come true. Why do we turn so easily to any vice or distraction within eyesight?

Okay, here I go. How can you apply this sticky note to your life right now? Let’s “Face Our Activity!”

(P.S. Sometimes I write because I have creative bursts and things to share. Other times I will burst if I don’t write.)