By Penny Power – Business Author & Human-Centred Speaker
I am writing this pondering with deep emotion. I hope that this helps you if you are letting go of something or experiencing a transition.
I’m sitting in Heathrow Airport, about to fly to see my daughter, Hannah in New York.
Earlier this morning I had a Zoom call from Pret, coffee in hand, with Ross (son) in Bali. As we spoke, I am aware that TJ, Georgia and our 3-month old granddaughter are fast asleep in Australia.
Four continents. One family.
So much change. And honestly… who could ever have prepared us for this? It seems to have happened so fast.
The life I imagined in my 60’s looks different now. There is pride, enormous pride. But there is also an ache. A quiet sadness. A sense of something shifting, the uncertainty of knowing is this forever, or just a season.
And yet, there is something that deeply comforts me. I want to share it in case it steadies you too.
Moments.
When I met Thomas in 1988, he said something to me that has followed me ever since:
“You are all about moments.”
He was right.
I have always captured life, not just in photographs, but in my heart.
The first nursery drop-off.
The airport goodbyes.
Sunday lunches.
Ordinary Tuesday evenings.
The laughter. The chaos. The pride.
I noticed them. I absorbed them. I felt grateful while I was living them.
And now, during this season of transition, that habit is saving me.
Because when loss arrives, or change feels overwhelming, I can say to myself:
“I know I appreciated it. I didn’t rush through it. I didn’t take it for granted.”
There is no regret that I failed to notice the beauty while it was happening.
Those moments were significant.
Those people are significant.
And because I truly lived them, they live in me still.
Transitions are painful. Expectations shift. Futures look different from how we imagined.
But gratitude for what was creates peace for what is.
And perhaps this is true in business as well as family.
The client wins.
The partnerships.
The growth seasons.
The hard seasons.
If we notice them fully while we are in them, we carry less fear when change comes. We carry gratitude and we also carry all those people we appreciated and know how significant they are to us – forever.
So today, as I move my heart between continents, I am choosing not to focus on what has changed.
I am focusing on what I lived deeply.
And that, I realise, is never wasted.
With love,
Penny x
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