Potholes Along The Highway...

Ahh yes!! I continue to read my Kathy Peel books and that's all lovely, well and good and I can imagine my fine little Terrell Family Corporation beginning to hum along with that newly established Family Manager in place. The little blurb has come out in the business section of the newspaper...the Welcome Wagon has dropped by...she's being invited to join various civic and business leadership organizations...Yeah, yeah, yeah...I've got a great little idyllic virtual world going on here. It's one of the beauties of reading a book, really...so nice to just plunk yourself in a controlled setting as a cast member.
Then static and fuzziness start messing up my reception on my virtual monitor.

DRAT! It's that darned REAL LIFE thing always NIGGLING in the background, messing up my nifty little fantasy world. *sigh* It comes in the form of trying to make plans with the other members of your corporation who bring their own needs and expectations to the bargaining table. You know those other members of the corporation are very handily vague in the book/fantasy world! This makes them infinitely more malleable to manage there.

Trying to make plans brings up the necessity of gathering facts from other corporation members who are 'out in the field' so to speak?? Sometimes we don't even know where the field is or what they are doing in it?? This unleashes a whole cycle of reactions, feelings and related syndromes that make fantasy planning/living nigh impossible. This causes this family manager to throw her hands on either side of her head and say WHY did I think it would be a great idea to go into personnel?? It's a brewing situation that the Family Manager and her co-chair are definitely going to have to handle.

***You know...THAT'S the REAL tricky part of building a family corporation...the process by which you add to your company?? *AHEM* Let us just say that the process does NOT always promote the most careful analysis from the risk-taking task force!! That having been vented...please know that I would not trade ANY of my corporation members for anything and I would not undo the uhhh, well, RESULT of that addition process...yikes! this is getting to be tricky tip-toeing!! I'm just saying...most corporations add members with a much more careful screening process? ANYWAY...that's enough of that rabbit trail! Back to my originally scheduled message...

So...actually the project lesson that keeps coming up for today...and YES, I got YET ANOTHER one of those surreal cryptic messages from the universe which would indicate that I maybe didn't get the whole message earlier in the week...is that I need to face *four letter word containing s and t* .....we'll go with 'STUF'...since that one is much easier on the psyche and eyes as well as remaining more professional and user friendly. FACE STUF...it's one thing that most decidedly adults have to do...and the vast majority of the time it's not pleasant, fun or pretty...but it needs to be done.

That's definitely one of the goals of this project: learning how to FACE STUF...the art of pulling up one's big girl panties and dealing with it! It's not nearly as much fun as playing in my virtual world but I'm hoping it will reap more tangible benefits.