Acting Without the Drama

October 13, 2009.  A lesson that I seem to learn over and over again is how little things need to be epic.

While it’s absolutely true that there are things that are profound in our lives, I’m finding that there is so little that needs to be a saga.  No clash of the Titans.  No storming of the Bastille.

Even when I’m right in the middle of going into that “big” space where everything is VERY DRAMATIC (you can tell how dramatic it is by the capital letters), there’s now a small voice in my head that says, “You know, I’m not sure that this is such a big deal.”

And over and over and over again, that has borne itself out.

Every time lately that I start to stiffen and put on my battle gear, I just end up feeling slightly sheepish.  All dressed up with nowhere to go.

Today my business partner was looking at some of my designs for letterhead for our trailer business.  She liked them.  She liked them so much that they sparked additional ideas that she wanted to play around with.  Apparently that was NOT okay.  Somehow, the fact that she wanted to change things to see how they looked was a scathing inditement of what I had done.

What followed was not nearly as bad or as long a process as what it’s been in the past.  I resisted for a while, but then opened up and dropped the armor.  What I found once I could see over all my shields was that she had some great ideas that built on what I had started.

Not epic.  At all.

And that’s pretty much my life lately.  I think I would love to just skip that awkward middle stage of gearing up for war.

I’m pretty sure I’m right in the midst of a breakout of peace. 

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