A blog is born...
I call this blog "Get What You Need" because that's my company's tag line. CMo Solutions is dedicated to helping people get what it is they need more of in their lives and absence that which they need less of. Sometimes that can be something HUGE...most of the time, I find, it's a series of little changes a person can make that improves their "day-to-day". Often, improvement comes slowly. There are choices I've made that feel downright awful when I'm making them that end up being the best things I've ever done.
For example, about five years ago I quit my rather lucrative consulting job, got rid of my large Roger's Park apartment, packed up my stuff and moved to Colorado with a boyfriend, I knew, wouldn't be long for the count. All I really understood was that I wanted something else and having resisted change for soooo long, figured I was going to have to do something drastic to erase the old paradigms I'd been living with. Paradigms surrounding security that were based on things that were always outside of myself - giving me only the illusion of security. I had to learn to let things go. The boyfriend and I broke up about 3 months later, but remained friends (and still are!). I never unpacked much of anything and essentially spent another $1,000 to move back what I'd moved there. For the next 16 months I lived at my ex-boyfriend's house in Colorado, friend's couches and spare beds in Illinois and the rare hotel room in between. Everything I needed, I carried with me in my car. In many ways it was a scary time. In others it was exhilarating. Full of ups and downs. But not only did I "survive" this self-imposed experience, it helped me gain the security I longed for and never really had. I learned to rely on the kindness and support of my friends. More importantly, I learned to rely on myself. I learned that sometimes you have to sit back and see what life is teaching you and that it's okay to do that. Progress isn't always linear.
Now, I'm doing some consulting and starting this new business. I rent a much smaller apartment and am involved with a partner that is very different than those that have come before. I approach life in a new way - although it's more subtle than you'd think.
I'm grateful for what life (in the form of people and experiences) has decided to teach me and for what I've been aware enough to hear. It's a fun ride and I hope to help others enjoy it as much as they can, too.
For example, about five years ago I quit my rather lucrative consulting job, got rid of my large Roger's Park apartment, packed up my stuff and moved to Colorado with a boyfriend, I knew, wouldn't be long for the count. All I really understood was that I wanted something else and having resisted change for soooo long, figured I was going to have to do something drastic to erase the old paradigms I'd been living with. Paradigms surrounding security that were based on things that were always outside of myself - giving me only the illusion of security. I had to learn to let things go. The boyfriend and I broke up about 3 months later, but remained friends (and still are!). I never unpacked much of anything and essentially spent another $1,000 to move back what I'd moved there. For the next 16 months I lived at my ex-boyfriend's house in Colorado, friend's couches and spare beds in Illinois and the rare hotel room in between. Everything I needed, I carried with me in my car. In many ways it was a scary time. In others it was exhilarating. Full of ups and downs. But not only did I "survive" this self-imposed experience, it helped me gain the security I longed for and never really had. I learned to rely on the kindness and support of my friends. More importantly, I learned to rely on myself. I learned that sometimes you have to sit back and see what life is teaching you and that it's okay to do that. Progress isn't always linear.
Now, I'm doing some consulting and starting this new business. I rent a much smaller apartment and am involved with a partner that is very different than those that have come before. I approach life in a new way - although it's more subtle than you'd think.
I'm grateful for what life (in the form of people and experiences) has decided to teach me and for what I've been aware enough to hear. It's a fun ride and I hope to help others enjoy it as much as they can, too.
posted by Christa Ojeda @ 3:43 PM
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