Wednesday, April 8, 2020

A Happy Accident

The 'lockdown' in the Philippines started March 15, 2020. Prior to this I was quite anxious not knowing what to do. While there was a potential opportunity, I has some doubts on how I can push it to move forward. When the quarantine started the world stopped and it gave me the sense that now we are all in the same predicament. My anxiety about my situation shifted to issues of the pandemic. Since this was beyond my control inner uneasiness seemed to have been tempered.

While making the most of of the 'break' was all over social media, it seemed like a regular day for me. I work from home with a few clients so I do have a lot of time. When I normally look to be more productive with my time, I shifted to the opposite and spent more time on social media following the pandemic and consuming my miscellaneous interests on YouTube. I did watch or join some online webinars that went on my feed.

Three weeks on the quarantine my mindset somehow shifted to join more of those productivity and business related webinars. This is when I came across Coach Russ' feed and saw a coaching webinar. I've been wanting to reach out to a personal coach for the longest time but resources was always in question. I said to myself one session would be nice and I just wanted to see what it was all about. My expectation was that it would be a big group where the person would be helping us out on how to cope and move forward in this crisis.

- I was about 5 minutes early. Suddenly realized, this won't be a big group thing. I wanted to leave. I did not.

- As it went on, I participated in the exercises. Communicating privately....

- Dinner at my house was usually at 6:30pm. If I was called for dinner I would leave....

- Dinner was late. I told William privately that I was potentially looking to reach out to coaches. He told me to wait till the end.

- Towards the end of the session William was looking for people to share. He called me out. I didn't want to share. I didn't want to be that guy, so I spoke up.

That night I went to check on the post again and realized I didn't read it thoroughly. It was clearly stated that 12 session will be offered for free. Looking back at it, maybe if I had seen that I would not have went to the meeting. I wasn't mentally prepared to go talk virtually with a bunch of strangers.
A happy accident. Serendipity would also be an appropriate term for it but I would rather call it a happy accident. In my sharing I think I consciously said a happy accident because it communicates it much more clearly. It was a happy accident.



No comments:

Post a Comment