"A life unexamined...

...is a life not worth living". Well. according to Socrates anyway! I've been doing a lot of examining today. My aim is to sort through the filing cabinet and drawers in my office today and I'm slowly getting there! But as part of that process I've had to sort out so much stuff that has been dumped and see if it needs to be kept or if it's safe to throw out. My bin is full and I still have a pile on my desk of stuff to wade through... and only half an hour left in which to do it! Thankfully my 'to do' list outside of this isn't too extensive so we're ok...

Im my pondering moments I very briefly thought about the analogy that could be drawn between the amount of junk that is accumulated in the filing cabinet and the amount of junk that can be accumulated in our life and how important it is to take time to sort through it all and get rid of stuff that's just taking up room... but then my brain started to hurt so I stopped!

So I'm almost at the end of my second week and I'm still surviving! This week hasn't had the same intensity as last week pre conference had so I have a chance to assess things and sort myself out a bit. Some of the team are away this week, including my boss so I've had a few days where I can get on with things uninterupted which has been really nice! I was taken out to lunch today by another one of the PA's who work here and it was great to get to know her a little better...

Must get on with dealing with my desk!... Hope to here from you all soon!

Yikes!

So it's my Second day and I'm totally exhausted already! :D It's been so incredibly full on today, I've struggled a little to keep up. People yesterday and today have been saying I'm in for a baptism of fire and I have to admit it began to feel that way today. I have managed to arrive in the middle of Conference Chaos... well maybe that's overstating it a little but we are about to host the Global Leadership Summit (GLS as I affectionally call it) here at church and expecting about 600 delegates over Friday and Saturday. It's very cool and very exciting but starting as the PA for the guy whose job it is to organise it has been a ride so far! My desk is a mess already and I've found myself writing and rewriting priority lists all day. I've managed to get through a fair bit but there's so much more to do. Everyone has been wonderful and so understanding and not expecting me to be able to do everything all at once but all the same I'm finding my people pleasing tendancies trying to kick in again I'm fighting the feelings of allowing the pressure to make me stressed and feel like a failure because I can't do it all...

But in the midst of the chaos today I took an hour out to go and see Tom, my Counsellor and it really was like taking the lid off a pressure cooker. It was so great to hear his reassurances that I have changed and this is a great opportunity to outwork the lessons I've learned in the past 12 months... I'll still continue to see him every 2 weeks for at least 6 more weeks and I feel really great knowing he'll be there for me to vent to, process with and hopefully he'll keep me accountable somewhat as well!

Well our evening training for the conference is recommencing so I must dash! Love hearing from you all!

Wow! What a week! So I had my second interview today for the job at Careforce and ended up getting a different job to the one I applied for! I went in looking at the Weekend Service Coordinator role mentioned previously and ended up with a full time PA position to the Creative Ministries Director at Careforce. I'm currently freaking out a little at the thought of it and I start on Monday so don't have much time to get used to the idea! Maybe that's a good thing as I won't have too long to stew about it! I'm totally trusting God that I'm ready for this and that He has orchestrated the whole thing. JJ, my new boss, has been so lovely and said that they were so impressed with my first interview they wanted me on board full time so that was really lovely to hear... AAAAARRRRRGGGHHH!!!!! I've left Rachel in the lurch a bit trying to find someone to cover me in the shop and I do feel bad about that... Sorry Rachel!

And it was really really good having Jon down for the week. I'm so so blessed to have a best friend who constantly encourages me and tells me I can do amazing things and supports me and copes with my freak outs... I'm going to miss him so much when he disappears at the end of the year but I'm so excited to see what good things God has for him, just waiting around the corner... I can imagine the letter writing and emails and packages will be thick and fast... and hopefully I get to go over for a visit at some point!

Congratulations MMJJ... so incredibly excited for you...