I couldn’t believe it – my BlackBerry’s track ball was stuck. What a disaster. I depend heavily on my BlackBerry for setting appointments when I’m out and about, looking at my calendar, looking for phone numbers and checking on my task list. All I could do was click to answer the phone and type in a phone number, if I knew it by heart. I had to wait 3 days for my new phone. It seemed like purgatory to me! Because of my phone insurance I couldn’t even go to a store to buy a new one.
On the morning of the third day, I was driving to an early meeting, still fiddling with the track ball hoping for a miracle, when suddenly it got stuck on a loud ring. Oh oh. Now I couldn’t shut it off at the meeting and I couldn’t move it back to a dial position for a call I had to make. Yes – the number was on a sticky note on my printed calendar – so last century. Just when I thoughi it couldn’t get worse….it did!
Fast forward to later that afternoon. I was standing in my kitchen. I took a deep breath and surrendered to the universe. I decided to just let go of my anxiety and dismiss my BlackBerry problem from my mind. Clearly stressing hadn’t yielded any results.
I picked up my blackberry to put it in my office and having done so often in the last three days, I just ran my finger over the trackball. It moved!!! It moved up, down and sideways – all was well…but not until I let go!
I am asking myself the following question: What would happen if I surrendered other anxieties – like will all my clients bolt because of the economy? Just breath….