Let me introduce myself
I am now managing multiple personalities and I’m not the only one. Remember when you were one face to your family, one to your friends, one to your employers? And a lot of people were very concerned when those worlds met and overlapped. I won’t use the now ubiquitous term REAL but I will say that having never had very firm boundaries between these worlds has enabled me to move into this new world we are living in seamlessly.
See I am me in all of these roles I play and I don’t shy away from laying my soul bare even when I have done outrageously stupid things in my life. The consequence is that there is no one who doesn’t know me who doubts that I am truly trying to learn from my mistakes.
Last night, on the front porch, our neighbors came for a visit and then a pizza was ordered from Italian Pie. My voice is still not working, but we managed to celebrate TGIF in grand bayou style. I might have been slightly winsome that hanging on my front porch might soon be compromised by our new plan to rent out the LaLa, but I wasn’t. I had overwhelming feeling of freedom from any preconceived notion of what any future day might hold. I decided to live each one as if it were a day of reinvention rather than a planned or foreshadowed event. That my dear reader, is freeing.
We will be posting the LaLa in all of its rentable configurations very soon on VRBO and AirBnB but most likely we’ll be starting with a two month renter starting in January. For now we have to outfit the laundry room as our kitchen and laundry. We’ll get a bed and change things up in my office. And the results are going to be fantastic because we can expand or contract as needed without changing Tin’s room and bathroom which keeps his life consistent as we shape shift as needed.
I also did a better survey of Google+ which I’m very interested in developing for my business ideas. There I can explore new versions of my business self and find out more about other topics in life that I have an interest in besides the seldom prosaic postings that I find on Facebook every day. Really Twitter feeds give me more insight into the world than Facebook. Facebook, as one student so well articulated, is where you show your best self – the one that goes to a job interview happy and sunny.
Reinventing yourself is a wonderful way to sort through superfluous baggage and get rid of all dead weight notions – it’s so freeing – sort of like a personality enema. Try it, you’ll love the new you.