Oh the guilt, the embarrassment…..
Ever feel guilty for not remembering a client’s birthday with a card? Or feel embarrassed you didn’t get around to sending a Thank You card for a referral? Uh uh, me too.
To put it simply, I sucked at all of the above. I wanted to be better, I really did. I had good intentions. I even went to the $.99 card store and bought a collection of birthday cards to have on hand. They’re still in the file folder I put them in.
I just couldn’t get organized to stay on top of sending cards. Then I found a way that made it easy. I now send cards, real cards in the mail, from my computer. Late at night in my PJs or early in the morning before I’ve showered. I no longer say bad words when I realize I don’t have a stamp, because I don’t need stamps anymore.
In a nutshell – I help change the world by sending cards. Real cards. In the mail. With a stamp. Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re encouraging, some have pictures. And I help other people do the same thing. Along with teaching and working with clients, sending cards is part of my mission to help make the world a better place.
What happens when you send a card?
Friendships develop and are nurtured. Prospects aren’t just prospects anymore, they’re real people. Your clients know that they matter and they start talking about you and raving about you and remembering that they need more of what you have. In short, connections are built and conversations are started.
Why cards?
I believe there’s not enough time spent letting people know that they matter – who they are, what they do, etc. I believe the world would be a better place if we all felt we were enough and weren’t so busy trying to prove that to everyone and ourselves.
So I’m on a mission.
I’m on a mission to personally operate in the world from that place of enoughness. And I’m on a mission to help others operate from that place.
When we know we’re enough, all sorts of magic happens. We speak, we pay attention, we share, we step forward, we create brilliance, we get out of our own way.
Over and over I see that so much of what keeps all of us stuck is this feeling that we’re not enough. And the greeting cards? They’re like vitamins for our enoughness.
My own journey to enoughness.
I’d love to say I’ve ARRIVED and I’m here and as your tour guide, let me tell you all about it. But my enoughness is unfolding, it’s developing, there are nuances to it. There are times when it is strong and “hell yeah” and other times when I have to coax it from under the covers.
For many years I faked it.
I got by on smarts. I watched, followed along and paid damn close attention to how everyone else was doing it. Or at least those that I most wanted to be like.
And then my husband and I decided we wanted to start a family. The short version is it didn’t happen as expected and there were starts and stops and detours and heartbreak along the way.
The gift.
It forced me to start sowing the seeds of enoughness. To start tending to the little sprouts emerging from where the fire had blazed through.
We were lucky. Incredibly lucky. We got our happy ending.
And now it’s even more important that I nurture my enoughness. As a parent, as a role model for my girlie. As a woman, a wife, a teacher, a bodyworker and an entrepreneur.
Here’s to cultivating and celebrating our enoughness. In our conversations, on our table, in our business, in our relationships. Here’s to letting people know that they matter. May we all know that we are enough.