I insert this photo from the nearby Morikami Japanese Gardens, as I find the scene very soothing & serene. AND CALMING! I emphasis the latter, as yesterday I found myself, the newbie, trying very hard to show the supervisor I could do the job. I know they want us to stay on the phone with each customer on the average 6 minutes, allowing for language barrier & questions this will, of course, take longer. I inputted one customer’s information & abbreviated her comments. The supervisor came over & read back the comments to me. To me, I knew what I WAS TRYING TO GET ACROSS, but to the next person in line (which normally is the person who confirms appointments; I’m the appointment setter) it would read like something else! So haste does make waste.
Yesterday I also forgot my wristwatch. I will never do that again!! I had to keep twisting my head to see the running marquee on the wall till it showed the time. I’m rubbing my neck now as I write!!
I’m almost 60 years old — when will I learn that if the job ends tomorrow it is not the end of the world? (note: I read that on 2/16 an asteroid is suppose to pass very close to the Earth, possiblly hitting some of our satellites. So even that isn’t the end of the world!). If I want to think about stress, I can think about both my mother & MIL who have Alzheimer’s, about my husband who is constantly unhappy in his job. We all have stress in our lives; it is how we deal with this stress that makes the difference.
So today at work I intend to think about the photo above. My own kind of Zen. We all could use a little Zen everyday.