Front Steps & Some Wisdom

My career transition coach, Dr. Helen Harkness at Career Design Associates is having an event on Saturday afternoon called "Wisdom and Wine Open House."  (Well, she's calling it a "Special Wisdom Event" but she's serving wine & cheese, so I've renamed it..lol)

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JOIN US this Saturday for an Open House     

Date: Saturday, October 26^th

Time: 4 to 6 pm

Location: Career Design Office, 2818 South Country Club Road, Garland, TX 75043

RSVP Requested: Email Options@Career-Design.com

This event is Open to the Public at No Charge. This open house is a celebration of "Work Life Wisdom", my chapter in the book Words of Wisdom co-authored by Dr. John Gray, Brian Tracy and others.   

If you have any books or products to sell, etc... bring them with you. We have asked a few individuals to spend five minutes each to share their wisdom with all of us.

Be ready to introduce yourself with your one minute elevator pitch! 

Do read our "Wisdom Blog Post" which includes the countless bits of wisdom earlier shared by CDA clients. This was part of my research for my "Work Life Wisdom" chapter and inspired this Wisdom Open House Event.

RSVP Now, so we can have enough wine and cheese for all! "Share" the word with your friends! We would enjoy meeting them.

Email Options@Career-Design.com with questions. 

Dr. Helen Harkness
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When I got the email invitation, I RSVP'd "yes" - I always try to attend any event she sponsors because I meet such a broad mix of people; I never know who might be there!  A few minutes later, however, I got a follow up email from Dr. Harkness asking me to be one of the individuals who speaks on wisdom for 5 minutes instead of 1 minute.  Me?  Wisdom?  I crawfished.  But in the end?  I'm doing it. (She has this way about her that makes it hard to say no...)  

But the point of telling you all of that is to say that Dr. Harkness wants ME to open MY house to folks so that they can see what I'm doing with my life.  And as a result, I thought steps to get into the house might not be a bad thing.  I know - that was a really long story to get to the point of this post: the tiniest set of steps you've ever seen...

"Strategery"

I don't know what's up with my Vanna moves.  Weirdo.

I intentionally made the design very small and very utilitarian; they need to be easily stowed when I travel, and not too heavy to move single handedly.  Here's the end result:

They will blend in better when they are stained darker.  The top of the top step wedges nicely under the ramp bars on the trailer, sort of locking the steps in place.

More weird Vanna moves...

And then of course we had to get action shots of me trying them out - because everything that happens in or near my house these days is happening for the first time, and well, must be documented.  : )

Honestly, those three photos are almost too dorky to even post here, but at this point in the blog I'm pretty sure I have no shame. So there they are.  lol  If you're local and want to attend - c'mon down - get some wisdom & some wine, and try out my new front steps!

 

This & That

So what's the latest here at a Bed Over My Head?  Well, I don't have any huge news, but there are lots of little things happening behind the scenes that are furthering my journey!

I am stopping by bcWorkshop on Friday of this week, just to meet Brent so that we can put faces with each other's names.  I like faces for names.

On Saturday I am having lunch with 5 local architects and a woodworker who want to know about tiny houses!  I huge thank you to my friend Elaine for setting that up for me!  I plan to treat it as though it is my first presentation - I'm going to find an iPad app for presentations and craft something up.  I'm distressed because I can't find my Tiny House book by Jay Shafer... lost in the move?  It might be in the trunk of my car... it's my last chance.  As a fall back I did order a third copy (I had already bought one.  Then last week I ordered one for my parents.  And now...) so I feel as though I may be single-handedly supporting Jay's book sales!  It's so frustrating that I can't find it!

I am reading a ton about about essential oils and educating myself about them.... that's fun.  When I go to the Tiny House Camp, I am going to share a cup of tea with the homeowner, Lakshmi and we are going to talk about essential oils... she knows waaaaay more than I do.

Mostly I feel like I am going to know a lot more about everything after the February tiny house camp, meeting Paul from Tumbleweed, and attending the Tumbleweed workshop in March.  I guess I've sort of put most of my actual tiny house planning on hold until then, because I know I am going to learn so much out there.  I'm in the two week count down!  Yowser.

I connected via the web with Hannah Adams of The Tiny Homemaker who lives in Wisconsin and is building a tiny house.  I have a sister in Wisconsin, and her husband thinks he wants a tiny house.  The web makes the world such a tiny place...

I still don't have a company name that grabs me!  It would help if I took the time to sit and think.  I'm so bad at being still.

Last week I got together with two phenomenal women from my career workshop - we had such a great night!  I'm so pleased to have two more fun people to spend time with... WITHOUT WORKBOOKS.  LOL