Wednesday Wisdom, Wednesday Morning, Inspiration for Women Entrepreneurs, Females
Brick steps, oak trees, front porches, flowering plants, and driveways set the scene of early morning passages from summer to fall, beaches to classrooms, and loud houses to peaceful havens. Images are taken and instantly displayed to share the start of another journey. Today’s social media images beam of children dressed in their best, wide-eyed and joyful, passing from freedom’s end to scheduled beginnings – anew, fresh, ready, and excited to see what is behind a new classroom door.
In 1976, Gail Sheehy, an American author, journalist, and lecturer, wrote one of the ten most influential books of our times called Passages. Although I was at the beginning of my teen years, the soft-covered book was in our house bought during a Cape Cod vacation. Some of my earliest “wisdom” years came from reading books from self-help authors such as Sheehy’s Passages, Norman Vincent Peale’s Positive Thinking Every Day, and Wayne Dyer’s The Sky’s the Limit while sitting on my dock on the lake. I assumed I liked reading these self-help books as I transitioned from elementary to junior high school when so many changes occurred.
As I witnessed these beautiful smiling images of school kids today, I remembered taking the same pictures of my sons standing near the road waiting for the school bus. Now they are 33 and 29-year-olds working in the Greater New York City area, and one is a new dad. The truth is time doesn’t stop, our kids grow up, we morph into mature women, and through another season into a new place whether we like it or not.
Passage can be defined as “the act of going from one place to another or changing from one condition to another.” Women entrepreneurs pass through doors to establish their companies, enter unfamiliar venue rooms to learn and network with other women, and even travel through changing marketing platforms to stay relevant. Entrepreneurship is always about a passage but we don’t stop to think about it that way unless it’s a new year or a day like today when we all start again in a hushed office or house.
Today’s Wednesday Wisdom is a gentle reminder that transitions, passages, and alterations of oneself, home, business, and life are okay. Life is for the living correct? If so, we know life is ever-changing and ever-flowing moving us from one porch, driveway, and beach or office space to another one. The textures of our lives change too as we adjust to adding staff or family, losing people we love, maturing in our personal life or business entity or even gaining wisdom from everyday readings. Rejoice that your journey is a positive one gently moving you forward.
At the end of the school day, no matter if you have children greeting you at the same place they left this morning or if you are working longer hours because there isn’t a reason to cook a large dinner anymore, realize today’s passage is a simple transition from one day to the next giving you freedom of choice to embrace and accept it the way you choose.
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