Things have changed. I've spent the last decade or so working for a marketing agency in metro Atlanta. Recent business realities have purposed me into a new space. The space of the creative who doesn't have a day job. In certain circles, the freelancer. In others, the unemployed. This is new space for me. My professional career has shifted. It has changed.
The company I was with has been walking through immense change over the last few years. During so, there'd been lots of conversation around "change management". This essentially is discussion around how are we going to handle this change organizationally. How will this impact our people. How can we intercept fear, and replace it with understanding and a call to charge the hill. And over the years, I've been a part of "managing" through change. But what I am realizing THIS DAY is that change is not something that is managed. It is something that you do.
I've had the privilege to talk to some amazing people over the last few weeks as I've driven all over Atlanta and caught up with some folks. A lot of whom have asked me "What would you like to do now?". I am uncovering my answer day-by-day, and am realizing that I don't know "what I would like to do now", but that I want to simply "do now."
There's uncharted territory ahead, and I don't know what the future holds, but I am confident in Who holds my future. This is a confidence I believe I have had, but it feels a little different now. And my task is to not live beyond now. If I am living outside this moment, I am not living in it.
There's a lot to do now.