Viral Storytelling with The Story Lady, Ronda Del Boccio

“Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals.   I never had a crisis that didn’t make me stronger.”

                        —Lou Holtz

My test…?

My week…

Wednesday, June 20-Sunday, June 25 - I am at Carl Galletti’s awesome Internet Marketing Super Conference 9 in Las Vegas.  This is exhausting, because I am constantly around people but am an introvert.  However, I have a great time making contacts and watching clients of Glenn Dietzel’s Awaken The Author Within program gain confidence, make contacts of their own, and learn the behind-the-scenes secrets of what happens at a conference as they watch Glenn, Nathan and myself.  It is great but exhausting.  I could use a couple of days off, but I won’t get them.  It’s all good, though.  I am blessed in the moment. 

Monday, June 26…
After being up since 4:30 AM, I arrive at 11 AM at the Las Vegas airport trying to get to Dallas and then home.  I spend the day there. A 3:55 flight finally takes off after 5:30 PM. 

The early flight to DFW is cancelled…

I arrive at DFW an hour after a flight to springfield is supposed to leave.

…I am in DFW at the end of a line after a cancelled night flight, I know

the fun is just beginning.

2 hours in line a night on the floor in DFW airport

freezing
CNN blaring
lights blazing

a few people on squeaky cots and they can’t lay still…
no blanket
no pillow
no sweatshirt
no jacket
freezing
FREEZING!!!

I say, “I am so grateful that I am inside and that I DO have a home to go to when this is all over.”  And it’s true. I am grateful despite the hassle.

Tuesday, June 27
All night freezing.
Early morning hot chocolate.
Going gate to gate Tuesday

trying to get home -

where are my ruby slippers???

I finally get on a flight at 12:45 PM only to sit on the runway for 4.5 hours.

Rain.  This travel nightmare is over rain and lack of adding extra flights to cover the cancellations.

I think, “I am so grateful that I will probably get home today.”

Not that I’m counting on it for sure. But probably.

The plane lands safely… My prevailing thought…

“I am so grateful we are all alive and in 1 piece (each).”

I arrive home minutes before I am supposed to teach my Storyation class.

I have had to reschedule 2 clients and have missed another class I am supposed to teach…

exhausted from almost no sleep…

Can’t rub two brain cells together and get a thought to spark…

I try to mail my class a message but my modem has died a sad and mysterious eath in my absence.

I can sort of use someone else’s computer…

but nobody else has my speech program…so I can squint a little for the work I MUST do…

I think, “At least I told people on the call that I was away…”

and I borrow a computer to email my students.  I’m squinting at the screen, hoping I don’t hit a wrong button.

Wednesday…and Thursday
I order a modem. It is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Thursday.

It doesn’t arrive. I borrow a computer enough to get through the essentials of what I need to do for my clients.

Friday. 
All day no modem.

Modem arrives at 6 PM.

I have to mess with it for an hour, so at 7 PM… finally I am connected.  After dinner and a break, I am hard at it, answering emails etc.

but 2 people are having fits because I did not respond to them quickly enough

Hoepfully they will realize I was not ignoring them. I had no computer access that I could access with speech. I keep things in perspective

Wee hours of Saturday morning…

So I decide to stay up until 1 AM to update the site with the call replay

One demands a refund - not that I ever refused, mind you.

But that is fine.  She could not find her sense of perspective or understand that the world does not always rotate at our individual command.  Things happen.  I send her a refund and a blessing.  I do not need negative energy in the class.  It’s all good. 

Sometimes people who do that sort of thing realize at some point that they are WAY over-reacting and feel very foolish indeed.  But that is not my concern.  I have moved on.  Thank you for the experience.

Today 

What stories do you tell yourself when things do not go your way?  It is an important question.

I focus on those who WANT to engage with me. 

Through it all I keep my sanity and my good attitude.

And my sense of proportion and perspective.

Harris Fellman is now stranded at DFW.  Harris, keep your sanity!  This too shall pass.  But is it a huge pain in the seat?  YES!

What is really important?  I have brushed death more than once.  I know.  Do you?  I have stared death in the face.

The testing that prepares me to receive at a new, higher, better level…

I pass.

Ronda Del Boccio, The Story lady of Storyation.com

PS I am an excellent receiver. I stand ready.

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