I was thinking earlier this week how amusing it was to find myself yet in another "transition" phase, finishing up with two clients and jumping into a big new project with another as my new partnership kicks off (and a new website will launch) and then I caught myself and realized, "we're always in transition." We don't actually ever truly arrive anywhere. The plane might land but the world keeps spinning. And I remembered years ago reading in a book on Buddhism about learning to just go with the flow and not trying to grab onto the side of the bank for safety, and thought, "Oh, I finally really get it, it's no use holding on anyway because nothing's safe."

It's easy to fall into the belief system that if we just do "x" everything will be fine, our life will be okay. Alas no. It might accomplish a goal, and be a really nicely accomplished goal at that (like a lovely new website, a complimentary article, gaining a new client, winning an award), but then we look up and realize we still need to finish answering emails, submit another bid, go to the grocery store and buy dinner and on and on. We are always in process and never really arriving.

And that can be unnerving or it can be liberating, depending on how we want to think about it. I used to get really bummed when I created a piece of art work or wrote something and once accomplished didn't think it was any good. I felt it held no real value if it wasn't something I wanted to keep, or give as a gift. I didn't realize that while I was in the process, while I was creating, I was learning all kinds of new things. As I write this I learn something new and have small "aha" moments.

This ability we have as humans to constantly learn and grow is quite astonishing and something I'm very grateful for. Now I'm moving forth to learn about all things tech and social media and the very first thing that has struck me as I start to read Techcrunch and AdAge and Fast Company daily is how elegant and creative not only the writing so often is, but the thinking behind it.. I'm a bit dazzled, and tremendously grateful to be a fly on the wall. If anything is going to move us beyond our current downturn and our challenges with the planet's limited resources it's elegant and creative thinking.