When I retired four years ago I had a plan. I knew I didn’t want to work my first year. I wanted to do over each room of my house and begin writing. The house thing went well, but I didn’t write a word. By the second year I figured I’d find a tiny job and be on my way writing. No job in sight, but this blog was born. The third year I kept asking God when this job was going to appear, and worked on seven picture books. Finally in the fourth year the perfect job appeared and one book (look to your left) is published.
Today I began training at Koko Fit Club as a fit coach. When I joined close to a year ago, I knew this was the perfect place to work. I put in my application last November and just trusted God that when the time was right, it would work out. I didn’t hear from them until one day in June the manager at my club said, “Hey, do you still want to work here?” Yes, I did, very much, but I made all those plans to teach the Young Authors Workshops in Boston during July. I asked them to wait until the end of August. Last Friday she asked if I was ready. Yes, I am.
The book is done, I could use extra money for the wedding, and I need a break from writing. I need to do something else entirely. Winter is coming and this would be the perfect place to spend my time. I love helping inspire people to live healthier, happy lives. Here on the Cape our population is largely over 50. Koko Fit Club is the perfect fit for my age group. I love helping people who thought they could never work out at their age, or because they have diabetes or arthritis. Koko has programs for both. It’s a joy seeing seeing people fifteen and even twenty years older than me succeed at becoming fit. Then we have the thirty to fifty age group. These people are still working and have crazy schedules and think they have no time to work out. The Koko workout is done in forty five minutes. It’s all individualized, there’s no thinking, all your workouts and info are stored on a flash drive, and the club is open 24/7. This age group loves the ease and convenience – we have five clubs – you can go in any town you happen to be working in. Next comes the high school through thirty crowd. These young people love the technology. They love having the challenge of watching themselves become fitter as their program changes and they lift more weight as they grow stronger to play sports and run.
It’s a great place to work, but the best thing about getting this job is HOW I got it. I didn’t go out and pound the pavement. I didn’t use the want ads. I didn’t look for help wanted signs. I just left it up to God and completely trusted He would bring the perfect job across my radar at just the right time, and it would involve something I have a gift for. During my few years of waiting on God, I realized my gift was teaching, but I had to figure out how to do it outside the classroom. I did it all summer with my children’s writing workshops, but now school is starting. The next school vacation is a long way off, but here I am in another teaching position.
And so, as another day goes by, I can’t wait to go back tomorrow, better go get my shirt out of the dryer, say a prayer of thanks before bed, and…I have written.
See you there, girlfriend :))))
Congrats! I’m so happy you are happy. Your patience is a lesson for me.
Patient? Who me? Lol!