Post the debacle with some wonderful ex customers running off without paying, and post Tax Season, where you have to pay provisional tax ON the payments they are refusing to make, and GST and everything else that you were sort of relying on their payments FOR, I wound up a little stress bundle last night.

A well time quote I heard yesterday was ‘in five years, will this problem still feel so big?’

In this case, my initial answer was ‘yes, when I’m bankrupt and out on the streets begging for money, this problem will feel bigger!’

Then I went to dance class… Tired, grumpy and feeling anxiety levels I haven’t felt since I took over this company when it was in debt and had been sort of abandoned for a year or so.

One lesson I learn OVER AND OVER, is when you are the most stressed, and the least able to come up with answers, GO DANCING… Or whatever it is that empties your mind and changes your focus to something fun and energetic and makes you feel a little spark of happiness.

Then you put your problems into perspective.

By the end of the night, I was halfway back to putting the issue into perspective (I still paid all my tax, I’ve got work on, this is ALWAYS a bad time of year, I’m a long way from the streets…)

I think my point is, whenever you’re feeling the least motivated and most pathetic, it’s most important to get off your butt and do something :)