Can you help me with my lesson to be learned?
I know that instead of being upset by the really yucky feeling in the pit of my stomach right now, what is really happening is a lesson to be learned. Problem is, although I know that there is a lesson to be learned, I'm not entirely posiitive what that lesson is. I am hoping someone can say something that triggers it for me.
Here goes: I am opening a new spiritual center. I have been careful to make sure to present it and myself in the right way so that we are seen for what we really are, and not mistaken for something else. I have even been careful about my logo, making sure that it depicts a warm, friendly place and isn't too sterile or perfectly computer generated. The place itself has turned out really beautiful. My landlord did a great job with the shell of the place, and I added in the decorating to make it a really lovely center.
The local newspaper has already done a quick blurb about me that I didn't even know about. They got part of it wrong. Not that horrible, but not exactly the image I wanted to portray either. This weekend the paper actually called me to get my comments on a new section they were writing up that included a more in depth look at my center. She called on Saturday and told me she had until Monday morning to do it. I talked to her Sunday morning and hoped that I answered all her questions the best that I could and that she would do the write up in a way that would accurately depict what my center did. I told her I was a bit concerned since the previous blurb wasn't entirely correct and also since the metaphysical/new age stuff wasn't entirely mainstream yet and that I knew that I had to be very precise because not everyone fully understands this stuff yet. I was very nice to her and told her that I was sure she'd do a good job, but asked her if she would mind e-mailing me what she wrote before Monday just so I could make sure it was entirely accurate. She agreed. I looked for the e-mail Sun and never got it. I called her this morning and she said she didn't send it to me because she found out that it wasn't the papers policy to do that. I got an immediate icky feeling in my stomach of --why after I was making sure to promote myself correctly, there could be a write up someone else did that was supposed to help my business that could completely fry everyone's first impression of me if done incorrectly, --and I wasn't even allowed to see it. That seemed wrong and strange to me. She agreed to read it to me over the phone and sure enough there were errors that would change one's perception of my center . She even spelled my name wrong. Didn't ever ask me in the phone interview how to spell it, even though I spelled it for her. I am upset and cannot shake that feeling in the tummy. I would rather have no free write up than an incorrect one. After all this careful work on a new business, this just doesn't seem right.
I am not trying to bite the hand that feeds me but I don't know why it should be ok that someone write something about my business that I'm not even allowed to see. I know there's a lesson here and I have some thoughts, but am too stunned right now to figure it out fully. Any takers?
Thanks so much.
Love and aloha.



