Jill had all her life wanted to go, but had yet never been to Europe. She also wanted to put the 5th annual Aimee Mann Christmas concert for the first time on her list of annual traditions, ha. So what its in LA? Some shows are worth it.
Jill always just tried to think about calmly proceeding until her true colours showed. Her intentions were always good! She would always work hard for a win-win solution to every difficult situation. It worked with people and horses, ha.
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Her boss had written back to the irate client that Jill "did have her days," and, that she did tend to bring her personal issues to work with her. Yikes. She thought that was great payback for representing him 24/7, ha. Meanwhile, they both knew she was about to ask for more unpaid personal days out of the office, for the upcoming annual horse show, ha.
Her coworker got paid days off to go someplace in her stead, when she would have been volunteering, unpaid on all counts. And here wan an upset customer who probably the wanted the volunteer job she'd just been offered elsewhere to boot!
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"I learned something." Jill felt stoopid for her own compliment… after the meeting. Mostly because of the socially awkward delivery no doubt. But, it was true. And it was truly meant well. And at least she'd said so. There was after all, no evaluation form. She did wonder though, why did she always have to burst in, blurt and bolt?
Instead of pondering too long, she always chose to calmly concentrate on just doing her best, over and over, in everything… eventually that comes around right?
On another session's evaluation form, too truthfully no doubt, she written that she'd resented paying $60 and taking an unpaid day off work for a session that didn't deliver an iota of info she didn't already know. Especially when other people paid $75 and got two meals, more networking and double the chance of learning something! Hmmmmm, was she hungry when she wrote that?
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Jill could tell from the way her kids rode that women spoke the truth when she rolled her eyes at the question, "I know you've never seen me Jill, but I can ride."
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Meanwile, in the tackroom, when she announced that the dismal lesson program they had just actually experienced for the the off season, was at least, about double the revenue of last year. As she said this, she saw the Head Instructor's face fall. Jill had taken over the administration of the program with the instruction To Grow It and had done so. But here was a downside.
So, she did not mention how she had decreased teacher payout expenses with improved cancellation handling and other ingenious day-time/double duty initiatives. They all knew she had improved brand with internal marketing only, no outside advertising at all.
And yet, the Head Instructor looked hurt instead of pleased for them. She'd seen it and wanted to cheer him up about it. There had to be a way!
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Jill sat down on her couch after work and cried. What a rotten day. The stress of her personal life was heavy for her. It felt good to release so much sorrow that she didn't want to ever burden anybody else with, that she never talked about. She was embarrassed by it. Shamed by the sad facts. And then she snoozed on the couch watching a cheesy movie really relaxing and feel safe. She was glad for friday nights with the whole place to herself and the fact that the weekend was about to begin and she could make improvements towards all the difficult aspects in her life one tiny step at a time… and around midnight she realized it was actually SATURDAY and she'd just missed her best friend's surprise birthday party. She wasn't used to her new Tuesday-Saturday work week and made the dumb mistake.
How do you explain such a thing? Jill's friend was so hurt that she could never even begin...
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Her shy hideaway cat had escaped for a run in the rain! That's what the mysterious thumping turned out to be? Maybe she should turn into an indoor/outdoor pet too? She was only brave about dogs, a total hideaway about everything else. She really could use more exercise!
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