Stretching, or changing is never easy. Whether your getting married, moving or learning a new occupation, we all get nervous and worry about what will come of it. As we change we grow, and what was once a challenge is something that we can do without batting a eye; but that was not so in the beginning.

            The beginning of any journey is long, tiresome, scary and hard; but through the experience we learn, we stretch and therefore we grow.  With economics I am sure many of us have had to take a different or new path in life, some have been laid off, while others are suffering due to lack of business, and still others have had to look for second jobs. That is where I am at, due to they economy I had no choice to continue my business that is shrinking, while working part time at night. At first I was excited, then I was hired and became very nervous; the training began and soon I was a “trained cashier”, ready to be on my “own”. Here is where I am still suffering the most, it had been about thirty years since I was a cashier and now the registers are computers, and if you don’t enter the correct information, the sale just won’t go through.

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            This is where I am doing a lot of stretching and growing, in many ways. I am not home at night to tuck my daughter snuggly into bed, where she openly hugged and kissed me “lots”. Where I use to go to sleep at 10:30, now I am going to bed at 12:30, sometimes later; while still getting up at 6am. Where at one time I was my own boss, now I have several, where I use to be able to correct my mistakes; now I must seek help; more times than I am comfortable with at this time.

            Over time and through obstacles I am sure I will get to understand the things I need to do, since I already had my first nightmare encounter, because of the way I wrote something out. It was one of my worst fears and not that I have encountered it is time to move along. It may have cost the establishment about twenty five dollars, but I swallowed my pride and called my manager in the morning; where he just informed that what I did was not correct and that I should consider myself counseled.  So now I proceed very carefully, still making tiny mistakes and in time I should have it all under control, but for now I still get nervous but even in my forties there is still space to grow.

I have not stopped learning and will continue to grow daily since it is within my power to stretch a little each and every day.
We all need a little stretching!

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