"Relying on the Post-it" Episode Eight

Welcome to Honor Your Truth

The “Is It True?” Series Episode Eight

"The world relies too much on the post-it"

I was at Office Max. I had to get paper for the printer, manila envelopes, and post-its. I simply cannot buy the original post-its. The pastel yellow reminds of hospitals and classrooms…..can’t do it. I’m looking for the cube. Every time I go to get a new cube, there is a new color combination I have to contend with. I wish I had a favorite stack, one that went with my office well, but I don’t. Depending on my mood and the time I have available, it could take me a while to decide. Have you noticed how many sizes, shapes, and colors there are?

Much of the stuff we buy now seems to have become designer, even post-its. It all becomes an extension of ourselves, attempting to say something about us, if we view it that way. Ask my girlfriend. She is a photo stylist. There is designer everything except one thing, but pretty soon that will be designer too. We are going to make it. We even have the catchy name. She swears we are going to make a million dollars. This would be good because neither of us has rich families or rich husbands. If we would have seen a gold finch yesterday, on Valentines Day, we would be marrying a millionaire soon. I didn’t see one. I asked her and she didn’t see one either. Therefore, we made a joint decision to really get going on the research for our project. We could probably live out our days yakking away on a park bench, but we got plans sister.

She made me promise not to tell anyone the idea. In this particular case, she tells me it is good to keep it between her and I. Keep it on the down-low. She has her finger on the pulse of these kinds of things, trends and what not. She knows me. It is always hard for me to keep a secret when I am excited. I am kind of a blabbermouth. Not with personal stuff, but historically with something like this, it was near to impossible for me to keep my mouth shut. I used to need someone to confirm that it was a good idea. Just another example of how I didn’t trust myself. Geez Louise!! How annoying. Today I feel annoyed by this and want to blame someone, but then that never helped me. I simply had to change.

When I am changing something, I vacillate between the full blown new me and the same old, same old. It just is what it is. If I expect to become an overnight success story, I set myself up to give up. I have to accept the period of transition. I cannot do it perfectly. If I revert back to the old way for a moment, a day, or a week, I just turn around again. The more times I turn around, the more momentum I gain in the new direction. It really is that simple.

I thought about all this wandering the aisles of Office Max. Very kind Office Max people kept asking me if I needed any help. I was tempted to ask them if they had any “blankety-blank” and then have them say, “WOW! No we don’t, but that’s a great idea” but I bit my tongue. Today is a good day. I am changing what I want to change. I can trust myself. I can and do Honor My Truth!

Debra Hadraba
Honor Your Truth
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