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Drift. It’s something I have been thinking about lately. It keeps popping up in blogs I read, e-mails I get, etc.The slow drift from awesome to great to good to mediocre. A decision you make by not making a decision at all. Just a slow drift to unintended consequences. You would never consciously go from awesome to mediocre. But somehow, slowly, you can end up in a place you never thought you would be.
Drift can happen in lots of different ways. Maybe it’s in your job or career. Maybe it’s your marriage. Maybe it’s the way you look. Maybe it’s just that you used to make an awesome cup of coffee because you ground it fresh yourself every morning and now you just buy Folgers from the grocery store.
Well, I’m not a coffee drinker, so I’m good there, but I know there has been a lot of drift going on in my life in lots of other areas.
Since I’ve been on this personal fitness quest, I’ll go with the easiest and most obvious – appearance. When I was in Atlanta a few weekends ago, two friends I hadn’t seen in a while made comments to me that made me start thinking about drift in my appearance. I have known both of them for about 5 years. The first comment I got was “You don’t look like a mom anymore.” The second one was “Did you do something different with your hair? You look a LOT different than I remember.”
Back in the day, you’d never leave the house without looking your best. Not only because you might see some cute guy at the store, but because it would never occur to you to leave the house without at least putting some lipstick and mascara on.
Awesome.
Then comes a point where you settle into life a bit.
Great.
Motherhood comes along. When you are a brand-new mom, it’s a built in excuse, since you can barely figure out how to take a shower in any given day. But sooner or later, you’re at the store in a ponytail, sweats and no makeup at all.
Good.
Now you have kids instead of babies. You’re still using the “baby weight” excuse, even though they are not babies anymore. One day, you look at yourself in the mirror and have no idea who is looking back at you.
Mediocre.
Well, it might have been a slow drift for me from awesome to mediocre in my appearance, but I’ve been trying to make it a much faster trip back to awesome. I am proud to say that with all the exercising and eating right that I’ve been doing, I have lost all my baby weight. Hey, it only took 10 years! Only 7 pounds left to my goal weight of 125.
Now I realize that all this might sound shallow. However, that’s not what it’s about. I think the slow drift in my appearance was a reflection of the drift in how I felt about myself on the inside.
But right now, I can look at myself in the mirror and think “Awesome inside…awesome outside!”
I have drifted in lots of other areas of my life as well which I need to start working on, but this is a good start. How about you? Any place in your life where you’ve drifted? Leave us a comment on the blog.
We have 316 new items this week, including "School – Boy" and "School – Girl" and "Flutter Flight" from Adornit by Carolee’s Creations, "Pets" and "A Hint of Pink" by TrimCraft and the "Discover" collection from Stamping Station – 2 papers and a sticker sheet for 51 different countries. There are two new layouts from these collections in the Shop By Layout section. Click here to see : http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/shopbylayout.html
The SYT designers were also working on the following themes this week: Ancestry, Arizona, Beach, Birthday, California, Circus, Color Guard, Driving, Faith, Ferry, Florida, Food, Football, Germany, Girlfriends, Hawaii, Kids, Lake, Music, Outdoors, Pets, Philippines, Rock Climbing, School, Scrapbooking, Southwest, Spa, Summer, Trains, Travel and Zoo. We have two custom papers – Painted Grunge and Butterfly Stripe and two custom die cuts – School Title and Back-to-School Name. Click here to see all the new items: www.scrapyourtrip.com/8262009.html.
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15 Comments
1. Ann B&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Julie, I think you nailed it on this one! Drift is precisely the issue that my now-ex-boyfriend and I were going through in the past year. While we didn’t drift apart, we certainly drifted from our original path where we helped each other in our walk with God. And as we let life derail us there, we paid less attention to the weight gain that was a consequence of being lazy. And now that we recognized all the ways in which we let things slide, he called for an end to our romantic relationship so that we would stop enabling ecah other. I don’t recommend such a traumatic method of correcting the drift!
2. Kathy&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Drifted; yes, I have drifted ……but into a better person. Age has made me a great mother( I have watched my kids grow into good adults) , a great daughter( I no longer treat my parents as a rude teenager can). I have collected alot of knowledge in many areas. I have held a job for 20 years at the same place and I’am respected there. I even feel more attractive than ever before at 45 years of age. I’ve been drifting in the right direction I guess.
3. Karin Lewis&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Thank you for your inspiring words. You’ve explained it in words I think those of us who are going through life and have hit that mediocre state will understand. I know I did. Over the years I’ve let myself go, I don’t have the excuse of baby weight or helping my children grow as my husband and I do not have any children. I’ve had other things in my life happen that I believe have drifted me into the mediocre stage. Thanks for the encouraging words and I’m looking forward to making the climb back to AWESOME!!!
4. Nancy C&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Your words have described my life lately, and thank-you for helping me put a finger on why I felt “loose in a stream with no purpose” . Thank you.
5. Patricia K&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 8:07 am
GREAT analogy! I drifted away from who I really am … and now I am taking steps to get back into that happy, vivacious, INVOLVED woman I was four years ago. More time spent exercising, less watching TV. More time spent with my son and his friends, less just ‘drifting’ through life. More time volunteering and less time making excuses. Thanks for putting this out there to remind everyone we are AWESOME people and need to reflect that, inside AND out!
6. Cathy&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Guilty.
I am engaged. Which is always exciting, but before we got engaged life had just settled into a routine. I realized I missed things that we used to do when we were dating. We both realized that the act of getting married is easy, but the marriage is what requires work. We decided put off getting married right away and recapture some of that “awesome” we used to have. This has resulted in a 17 pound weight loss for me, more love notes from him and date nights. We are both better people and feel more prepared to begin our life together. This will be our ongoing journey to “AWESOME”
Good Luck with your return to Awesome!
Cathy
7. Elaine&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I don’t know where in your “drifting” you started SYT, but the way I see it, you started, probably, at Great and rapidly advanced to AWESOME! Be very proud that while you may have been drifting down a bit in every-day stuff, you were able to maintain and increase your business stuff to an incredible level. You are already AWESOME! Be proud; be very proud. And congratulations on the positive advances in the daily arena!
8. Kristi Barnes&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Julie, You are 100% correct – drift is an epidemic in this country. As I look at my life over the years I too have let my outer self drift. With some tough challenges over the past 8 years I have not taken care of myself. I have drifted away from me. I am taking steps to change that however and on Sept 8th am moving from Panama City, FL back to my home of Portland, OR. It’s time to get back to my roots and find myself again. Thank you for your sharing your struggles it somehow helps to know there is someone else out there who has issues too. I love SYT and you are truly an inspiration! Thank you
9. April Joy&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 9:06 am
For me, drift has been mostly occuring in my spiritual life. After becoming a deacon in the church (a 2yr process of growth and learning for us), I was filled with His Spirit. But over time have started going through the motions, without a lot of true connection with God behind it. After being asked to chair the search for a new pastor (our current pastor of 30yrs would like to retire), I took stock and realized how far I had drifted and am now working my way back through the steps to good, then great, and hopefully awesome. As I do, I am noting improvements in all other areas of my life as I reconnect a true relationship with God, rather than just going through the motions.
10. Scrapin Kat&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I can relate to drifting heck even just FLOATING… life can make us stressed especailly when you own a business and are self employed, I have found my self drifting from project to project but NOT finishing anything!
Thanks for the inspiration maybe I can Take a DEEP breathe and get it back on track!
11. Lisa&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 10:24 am
I have searched high and low for stickers/paper…anything to do with trucking for a scrapbook. My father-in-law was a truck driver and he passed away last year and I want to do a scrapbook for my mother-in-law but can’t find anything. Any info would be very much appreciated. Thanks!!
12. Diane Cutright&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Julie…I read your comments about drifting and I have to say that I think your customer relations dept. has drifted a tremendous amount. I have been a customer for several years…and a good customer at that. However, I recently returned from vacation to find my shopping cart empty. It had been filled with lots of items and I was waiting to return from a trip to finalize it. My shopping cart has never been emptied before. The excuse I received from SYT was that it was Yahoo’s fault. In the past, I have had a Yahoo store myself and never did I encounter Yahoo coming into my site to empty shopping carts. It will take a huge amount of time to replace the order and I am inclined to just go elsewhere. You have wonderful die cuts and your staff in the past has been very helpful but I was not impressed this time…drifting to mediocre perhaps?
13. Julie Swatek&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Diane – I certainly hope my customer service team has not drifted! I don’t think they have, but if so, I want to know about it.
Unfortunately, what they told you is correct. If you have the cookies enabled on your computer, Yahoo will save your shopping cart contents for 30 days. I wish I could get the info back for you, but I can’t. There are lots of benefits to working with a big company like Yahoo, but icky things too – this is one of them.
We are so sorry. Please let us know if there is anything we can to do help out
Julie Swatek
14. Beth&hellip | August 26th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Simply put…I WANT AWESOME BACK!
15. Christine&hellip | August 27th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Wow, have you been following me around or something? I have been drifting for about a year now. At home, at the office, pretty much everywhere! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked God, “Why am I here”? It’s so hard to be everything to everyone!