July 9, 2020
“Making yourself available.” How many business leaders have shared those exact words with you? “Make yourself available.” I used to cringe at the presence of those words. Because I knew everybody on the team wouldn’t leap onto the path the same. Besides, what is available? For how long? Ok stop. That’s how we lived in January and February 2020. On this podcast episode we put the focus on life in March and beyond. Look at how you’ve had to make yourself available with family. From teaching your children to learning how to get along with people you love but for how many hours is this going to last without a break? Let’s be real with each other. None of us have a map on how to get out of this Covid-19 mess. Every day is a new page and way and the threat of going financially bust is that family secret. But how long can we make ourselves available and is anyone else participating right? Who are we doing it for? I’ve literally been so busy in the recording studio and my wife will ask for a little help. I look at the interruption as being something greater controlling the moment. I’m being called away from the creative project to give myself a mental break. Making yourself available doesn’t mean prepare yourself for less you time. Learning to adjust your thinking rebuilds the cracked bricks on a path you had in January and February but now we’re all walking through this huge overgrown forest with no path beneath our feet. Only to hear, “Make yourself available.” What if that whisper? What if that command? Came from God. “Make yourself available.” Do you sit there and begin to complain? Do you ask to see HR to get a witness? Do you mope around and beg for a week to decide if you’ll play along or walk away? “Make yourself available.” What’s your personal perspective? And in developing that point of view does it take you away from the projects demanding attention today? Being aware of where you are right now is the safest place you can be. You can’t jump into the unpredictable future that news agencies are trying to paint into place and your past can only be rewritten not relived. Making yourself available for now. This moment. Being you right here. No judgement. Just you and the atmosphere. Make yourself available for now.