right on

I am a do-er. I tend to find satisfaction in getting things done. I'm not content to sit back and watch, too often. In fact, I tend to sit in the front of the class and raise my hand, regularly. It's my way. It's my style. It's part of why I like to be a queen. I get to do a lot, a lot of the time.

Sometimes, it jacks me up. I get to hustling, herding and checking off the list. I get to kicking A and taking names. I get down and I get it done. It's gratifying, satisfying, great. Yes! Another one bites the dust! It's just that, there are so many things that I can't just get done, even if I do everything I'm supposed to do, everything I want to do, in order to prepare. Some people and some situations just need time, agency and the winds of a new season to blow them my way. I can't make that happen. I can't shape that transaction. Arrival is not a static, fixed scenario. Life is fluxuating. This can be frustrating for a bossy hoss like me to accept. Except, lately, having finally acknowledged my own limitations in this tornado-like tango with time, having exhausted myself on the runaround, I'm rediscovering the beauty in deliverance. All the right things are showing up. Right on time. Aaah. It tastes good, the whole way down.

For what felt like an eon, we were hunting down a new sales manager. Many brilliant, tenacious and qualified individuals bustled through our doors, but none of them fit our exact specifications and requirements. We needed just the right fit. Us? A glass slipper. Aforementioned character? Cinder-frickin'-rella. A few weeks ago, we had a bear of a weekend, over here. We got worked. Our spot was booked to the gills with rooms and parties were going off the chain. The staff, including myself, all got our fill of fun. We were pooped. I was willing my way through the drive in on Monday. Faking it until I could get to making it. Wilted, zonked and wimpish, we made our way in and looked around. Who would inspire the shine? Me? Yikes.

Like a bubbling brook in a sweltering Sahara, she appeared! Our superstarlet sales goddess had been chosen and had arrived. Newly hired, vivacious and a veritable champion, she was and she is exactly the thing we've all been searching for. She's brought in fresh, new energy that is a perfect compliment to our many, shall we say, nuanced ways? She's incredible. She's savvy. Sassy. Sophisticated, but not stuffy. It's like we've been over here tasting soup for hours, trying to determine the missing ingredient to complete the flavor profile and boom, she stuck her little neck out from behind the oregano and squeaked out. Hello. Try me. Duh.

And her arrival has brought out all the best in all of us. Her direct, finite ways have helped me to feel grounded and steady. Her quirky curiosity has created a space to help open up our more reserved talent members, and we're all growing closer, together, more like a unit, less like a hodge podge, a random mix. I've noticed the way we're bringing this to all of our conversations, with each other, with our guests and probably with our spouses, loved ones, pets, plants and, in my case, daily interactions with the 7 eleven clerk who sells me my perrier and orbit spearment gum. I think Jamal thinks I scored a lotto ticket or a trip to Belize. Nope. Just Heidi. Just what I needed.

It's fabulous, because she's reminding me how important it is to have the right people around you, to have the right balance of personalities, character and, well, connection to your colleagues and coworkers. Her being here encourages me to know that there is magic in the things we go after, and still more magic in the things that arrive just when you'd given up hope they'd ever get there, or forgotten they were being sought out, in the first place. I am so grateful to work with the most fabulous assortment of people, across the board. I had almost forgotten.

I have a lot of access to a lot of vibe, but I don't control time and I can't move the clouds aside and demand the sun to shine. Those things are outside of me, thankfully. Beside me? Our new sales guru, Heidi Studer. Stop by and say hi. Whenever the time feels right.