Some awesome new things are in the new theme, which I’ll talk about in a post tomorrow…but for now, some replies!

@Josh: Happy Thanksgiving, and I hope yours was a great one!
@Dave: That’s great! I’m glad to hear it helped you, too.
@Christy: Report back when you do it! I would love to hear more.
@Living Off Dividends: Great to see you over here…and now you don’t have to have short conversations! This is an amazing tool for those who feel like you (and I) do when we pick up the phone…”What am I doing again?!”
@Jdearing, @Nina: Fantastic!
@Claude: Wow, an old IBI’er! Hope to see you around these parts more often. Great story; thank you for sharing!
@Armando: You are always one of my favorite people!
@Cath: Crazy, huh? Someday you should come over here to the US and we should hang out.
@Pace: Thank you! I’m glad to see you here!

Thank you all again!
-Erica

I love the new theme! It’s beautiful!

(Also, I love this post.)

And like you, since working at home, I have a real problem with the phone. I don’t even like answering it, never mind calling folk. I don’t know why I find it’s so difficult, I guess I’m just not used to doing it.

At first, it was ok, Stuart was working from home too, so he used to deal with any phone calls.

I think I might give your idea a try. Doing things that make us feel uncomfortable is the only way to grow, I guess.

And it sounds like those phone calls really benefitted you. Hopefully, you’ll be able to hold onto that good feeling next time you need to make a call.

That was during the lowest year of my entire life!

Just yesterday, Thanks Giving Eve, my dear Mary Pearl was trying to call a once favored cousin who had caused a major hurt to Mary before I met her, to wish her a Happy Thanks Giving. She had lost the cousin’s number, so she found one of the lady’s children’s phone number and tried to call, but it did not ring.

Than Mary asked me to try online to find the number, and I found one, but it was not verified with address, etc. So, Mary just called the number, cold.

In moments I heard her happy voice as she found her long-lost cousin, then called all the rest of the family to make re-acquaintance, and share her love!

This Internet thingy is blamed for being an impersonal barrier between persons, and that is true “if” the user intends it that way, BUT – what a blessing it can be for those who intend to use it for the benefit of others!

Thanks so much for your wonderful post to my e-mail about using the equally fear factoring phone to “Let your fingers do the walking”!!!

Claude in Puget Sound