I found my hat.

I have spent a great deal of this past week "settling in" to what appears to be a major shift of one sort or another. It honestly hit so hard and fast that it took me a few days to process it. It isn't like the recession where it spent months and months settling in. It was more like a tornado that landed in a surprise landing. But, here it is is... in all it's honesty... to my world. 

My business has been very very VERY busy this spring. Well, since around November. I have been having a great deal of fun helping families find their dreams. First homes and bigger homes and retirement homes and home business settings and and some moving clear across the nation for one reason or another. And we were in the process of just getting wired for the season. Seriously. I was stoked. The pieces for my client families were truly starting to fall in place. And it  was fun!

I was literally at the office seven days a week.. bringing my homeschooled children along for the ride and we were having a sincere blast. And then.... 

Then we were told to go home. Take our files, take our important documents, take anything we might need for the foreseeable future and go home. And what did it mean? 

Not much, right? We were still showing homes, running markets, selling houses and doing all normal things. The office was still open, but we were tele-commuting. That is where the shift began. 

Then they cancelled school (Not a big deal, right? I mean we homeschool so what's different...). At first it was nothing. Just online office meetings and less in person contact. But suddenly it all went. Karate, Piano, Science and Writing Group, church. All of it. And. just. like. that.... the calendar was wiped clean. The rules changed. No more open houses, no more Realtors at inspections. No more hanging out at the closing table. No. more..... 

And I miss it all. I miss the busy. It has taken me a week to breathe and find some semblance of a new groove. 

Don't get me wrong. I AM busy. I have selling clients. I have buying clients. I have families with dreams. But it is all moving now at a different pace. We are all trying to find our new footing. We are all trying to figure out the changes. When to look at homes, when to list homes, how to process the paperwork, using new forms to associate with our changing world. 

Don't get me wrong. The market has not slowed down. My business has not quieted. But the view of the landscape is changing. It is changing in the view of how the business is conducted. And it is changing very quickly. Now that I have found my hat amongst the rubble I am beginning to polish it and reshape it to match the changing atmosphere. I am gonna hang on to it lest I lose it in the wind and I am gonna watch carefully to see which way that wind is going to blow. 

And, all the while, I am still here. I am not going anywhere. But like the rest of the world around me... I am centered at home. Working remotely - yet available. So, if you need me I am only a phone call away. This "new" road we are paving we will pave together and I'll do everything in my power to stay on top of the changes to the landscape.