For over six months, I\u2019ve been trying to find the time to do what I\u2019m finally doing now, connect with you through this blog.<\/p>\n
Six months! Dealing with the demands of everyday life\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2026 instead of writing.\u202f<\/strong><\/p>\n Six months paying attention to the urgent things instead of the whispers in my heart, my head:<\/p>\n And you, have you spent the past 6+ months the same way, focused on the urgent things calling for your attention, or have you been wiser and listened to the whispers that remind us what is really important, before the important becomes urgent, as Stephen Covey said?<\/p>\n The important eventually becomes urgent, and only then do we take care of it.<\/em><\/p>\n In 2012, I was about to turn 50, in August. I\u2019d been single for 15 years. Not alone necessarily \ud83d\ude09 but single.<\/p>\n All of a sudden, I felt the pressing need to act on what, for 15 years, had been important but clearly not urgent: my personal life.<\/p>\n Being faced with a \u201cnew decade\u201d of aging has that effect. A sense of mortality. The illusion of being immortal gives way to awareness of the time that\u2019s left.<\/p>\n I listened to the whisper in my heart, which was suffering from the lack of affection, continuity, sharing.<\/p>\n The whisper said: \u201cI want to share my life.\u201d<\/p>\n And I began listening to the whisper, through the urgencies and obligations of everyday life, which NEVER decrease. I began paying attention to the signs, the little signs of destiny.<\/p>\n In July, I will celebrate 6 years of love with Alex. I\u2019m 56 now. My mother passed away in March of last year, a cruel reminder that life is short and we are mortal.<\/p>\n The desire to share my reflections and principles, to write in my book everything that consciously helped me realize my old, impossible dream of sharing my life, that desire is a whisper to take action.<\/p>\n My book is on the way, and in the meantime, I\u2019m following the path of encounters that enable me to share with my future readers and all those who, like you, want to connect with what their whispers are telling them is important\u2026 and perhaps becoming urgent.<\/p>\n What is important never cries out \u2014 what is urgent yells, demands, makes noise. What is important whispers: stop, breathe, think about yourself, just one little step at a time, in the direction of your dreams.<\/p>\n Maybe the time has come to rethink a relationship\u2026 to listen to the whisper of hope and not to the one that says: I no longer believe \u2014 being happy in a couple, that\u2019s no longer for me.<\/p>\n If it\u2019s for you, you know, you can feel it.<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to stop here for today, dear readers.<\/p>\n For me, taking the time to be with you as you pursue your dream to share your life is important, it\u2019s my destiny.<\/p>\n And I leave you now, whispering\u2026 the time has come to share your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For over six months, I\u2019ve been trying to find the time to do what I\u2019m finally doing now, connect with you through this blog. Six months! Dealing with the demands of everyday life\u2026 Fold a pile of towels from the dryer Gather together my tax documents to take to my accountant Clean out the fridge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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