9 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.