When the world seems to be crumbling around you

I must share with you a very interesting phenomenon about my day yesterday.

As background to this, let me just tell you that I have arranged for the FILMING of my next four scheduled seminars, and to say that I have been just a LITTLE stressed about this would be putting it mildly!

Well, what happened is that the venue where I was intending to host these "free" filming events called to tell me that they were not going to be able to let me have the building now without charging me some very hefty fees after all.

Now I LOVE all these people at this location, and let me tell you right up front that they were NOT the ones calling the shots about this fact, and they were as incensed as I was shocked.

So when I hung up the phone in a pure stupor, realizing that I only had FOUR DAYS to figure out where else I could hold this event, I was feeling MUCH more about how wonderful I would feel if I just CANCELED this event!!!

But then when I followed THAT thought through to the next level of reasoning, I realized that ALL this stress was because I was soooo darn worried about the FILMING of it all!

... And if I would JUST get out of my own way, and no longer try to make it "more" than what it would automatically BE ... I realized a very important thing:

(This might sound simplified to you, but it was an epiphany to me ...)

All I needed to do for ANY of these filming events is just SHOW UP!!!!!

I realized that the audience is not going to care if I like the way my hair looks, or I stumble over a few words, or I even repeat myself too many times about the way I say something!

In fact, the ONLY thing at stake at that point was my "reputation" as a speaker, for whether or not I would "come through" and just BE THERE for them all!!!!

I am relaying this story to you now ONLY because I realize that this is something we ALL should remember!!! ALWAYS!

No one is EVER looking at us and critiquing anything if they believe that we have really, truly, and honestly "showed up" in heart and spirit to BE WITH THEM in THEIR lives!!!!

And ya know what?

YOU can do THAT!!!

YOU can ALWAYS SHOW UP and simply BE THERE!

There is really NOTHING else that you EVER really "need" to do!!!!

I plan to remember this as I "show up" this weekend just to be with my family!!!! Even if it IS then only two days before I get to be shaking in my boots when I hear the words ... lights ... camera ... ACTION on Tuesday!!!!!

Tell me to "break a leg" and just know that I will appreciate your wonderful support!!!

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Oh, and by the way ... the outcome?

It turned out that all the doctors of this building came to bat for me IMMEDIATELY and got the management company to back down and wipe the fees away!

Aren't I lucky that I got to experience a complete reframing of all my stress ... in a way that even felt like MORE stress until I "surrendered?"

For without this "nightmare" of a day I would have been going into this weekend with a WHOLE LOT MORE STRESS on my mind than I have now!!!!

Now, I just remind myself that all I HAVE to do at any point of next week's two filming events is "show up!"

... and ... well ... ANYONE can do THAT!!!!