{"id":365,"date":"2012-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/xarah\/just-leave-me-alone\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T00:00:00","slug":"just-leave-me-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/xarah\/just-leave-me-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Just leave me alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Just leave me alone and let me do my work!<\/h2>\n<p>But you are welcome to keep on reading \u2013 even comment below\u2026 Anyway\u2026<\/p>\n<p>While I was walking to the tram station (a tram is like a \u00a0bus that drives on tracks) in order to go to our garden to water the plants because it promised to be a hot day this Saturday, I was a bit mad.<\/p>\n<p>And kept thinking: just leave me alone, just let me do my work. Just leave me alone. Just leave me alone! Why can they not just leave me alone?<\/p>\n<h2>Stupid Self-Talk?<\/h2>\n<p>I got up this morning at 7 am (I was suddenly awake) and for once I decided to get up before the cats would wake me. The plan was to feed them and spend my hour of blogging before I would start cleaning the house (which I usually do on Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>I had just opened everything I need to start blogging. Folders, browser, files.<\/p>\n<p>See, my goal since yesterday is to spend an hour to prepare as many blogposts (3-5) every day and to publish them throughout the day. Dave Wood had just interviewed John Wells the other day and I was really jelous of him. Because he blogged \u2013 more than once a day. So my new goal is to blog 3-5 times a day. And to learn everything there is to learn about blogging. He didn\u2019t even do any SEO, he just produced blog posts. Hey, I can do that too! Let\u2019s see what happens in the next 6 months in my life <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.empowernetwork.com\/Xarah\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":-)\" class=\"wp-smiley\"\/>  and the best part, anybody can do this, too. It\u2019s no science. But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>So, I had just opened all the programs, notes, browser when my girl-friend came into my home-office and said something along the line, she was going to the market to buy some fresh fruits and vegetables and if I could go to the garden and water the plants. And I thought, why can I not do what I had planned to do? Why can \u201cthey\u201d not leave me alone?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, you have to know that last night, Noel keep chewing my ear off around midnight demanding his last meal of the day and when I closed the door to the kitchen (where he goes to let me know very loudly and insistantly when he wants food or attention), 2 minutes later Zena sat in front of the door and made her weird noises. She doesn\u2019t meow\u2026 much. And I almost hit the ceiling because I was being constantly interrupted. Constantly taken out of my focus and concentration.<\/p>\n<p>WHY CAN THEY NOT LEAVE ME ALONE???<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Back to this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Being a green personality (<a title=\"personality colors\" href=\"http:\/\/xarahs.colortosuccess.com\" target=\"_blank\">more on personality colors<\/a>) I (found out) like to stick to a plan but I get interrupted constantly. And that\u2019s why I am often very impatient and get mad. I get interrupted by the phone, by the cats, by my girl friend, not to mention Skype, and tons of ideas that pop up in my mind and everything demands my attention.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Back to my girlfriend\u2019s demand. She\u2019s right. It\u2019s our garden. We have just planted new plants. They need some water. She\u2019s going to the market and will cook later. So reluctantly I agreed to go.<\/p>\n<h2>Back to walking to the tram station<\/h2>\n<p>Thinking: why can they just not leave me alone. Just leave me alone\u2026 I suddenly realized that exactly the same thoughts had been going through my brain when I still had one of my numours jobs.<\/p>\n<h2>Just Let Me Do My Damn Job!!<\/h2>\n<p>I probably might have said it out loud too. Now, understanding the <a title=\"personality colors - colors to success\" href=\"http:\/\/xarahs.colortosuccess.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>personality colors<\/strong><\/a> I understand myself better. Too bad I didn\u2019t know about them before. I\u2019m sure I could have dealt with the people and the interruptions better. And that\u2019s why I am writing this, to remind me. It\u2019s not the cats fault or my girl-friend\u2019s fault or all those ideas or even the phone\u2019s fault. I just have to learn how to deal with it. A break could be nice right now. Jotting down the ideas on paper or in a notepad and back to what I was doing\u2026 it\u2019ll take practise but now that I know it, I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll get better. I hope.<\/p>\n<h2>In the garden<\/h2>\n<p>Was it really so bad to go to the garden? No, not really. And when I was standing in front of the wild strawberry field (well, tiny field, bed is more likely) I thought I was glad I went because there were a lot of ripe ones. Ripe for the picking. Yumm!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/Xarah\/?attachment_id=3875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3875\" src=\"\/Xarah\/files\/2012\/06\/spring-strawberry-field.jpg\" alt=\"spring-strawberry-field\" width=\"500\" height=\"172\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, after the watering and picking the berries I had long before started to relax and enjoy the quiet and the sun. I remembered had some whipped\u00a0 cream left from yesterday and imagining breakfast let my mouth water.<\/p>\n<p>But because it was so nice, and quiet I decided to take off my shoes, grab my book and stand in the green gras for a while and read and let the still not too hot sun warm my skin.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I got home an hour later it started to get hot. Glad I went though. Glad my plans got interrupted. I mean \u2013 as you can see \u2013 I picked up where I left off. Better even, had this idea to write about.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"personality colors - colors to success\" href=\"http:\/\/xarahs.colortosuccess.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Personality Colors<\/strong><\/a> are fascinating and I\u2019m gonna write more about them. Finding out what color I am and other people are and how this knowledge can help me dealing with people around me, in my private life and business life is very very valuable \u2013 IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>Why don\u2019t you <a title=\"subscribe to my blog\" href=\"\/Xarah\/feed\/\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe to my blog<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/Xarah\/happy-solstice-to-everyone\/xarah-signature-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2603\" src=\"\/Xarah\/files\/2011\/12\/xarah-signature-150x96.gif\" alt=\"from Xarah with Love\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just leave me alone and let me do my work! 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