Written by Kirri White. Follow me on twitter or facebook.
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This post is part of the #trust30 writing initiative, inspired by Ralph Waldo Emersons “Self-reliance” that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. You can find further details regarding the challenge here.
Day four prompt by author Jenny Blake
Identify one of your biggest challenges at the moment (ie I don’t feel passionate about my work) and turn it into a question (ie How can I do work I’m passionate about?) Write it on a post-it and put it up on your bathroom mirror or the back of your front door. After 48-hours, journal what answers came up for you and be sure to evaluate them.
In my haste to get everything done that desperately needed to get done this weekend, I now find myself behind in this writing challenge.
Behind who? I’m not sure, but I do know that I spend many days and weeks racing and rushing…hyped up on adrenaline and a barrage of less than kind self-talk. Driven by responsibilities and the need to do, to create, to make something out of every waking moment.
I can spend up to an hour planning each and every week, and have a bunch of post-its adorning mirrors, doors and notebooks.
I’ve been told that this is a good thing. I’m motivated, enjoy keeping fit, making it happen and have all my ducks lined up in a nice straight row. Thanks for noticing…..so what the whispers of insomnia and anxiety in a mind that won’t shut the hell up?
Enter pretty pink post-it:
Moment of truth.
I have coached people on maintaining work-life balance. I aspire to live a simpler, more conscious life and yet there are times when I have to admit to being a junked up overachiever.
The sleepless nights and jitter-bug mind are always an indication that I’m out of whack and headed to that place of pure whackness!
So what do I do? To be honest, taking this time to reflect and examine is the biggest step of all for me. It takes me back to a place of awareness and reminds me of the importance of checking in and making minor adjustments to my current path.
Some other things I know will help and that I can consciously commit to:
– Work smarter not longer and harder. Work in specific chunks of time and take breaks.
-Prioritize and differentiate between what is really important and what is urgent.
-Minimise caffeine and no chocolate at night (ooh that’s a hard one)
– Do more yoga, meditation and less running, dancing and metaphorical bouncing off walls
-Spend more time outside with the aim of connecting with nature
-Keep doing what I love but make sure I’m still plugged in to my family and friends
-Have one day a week where I am completely disconnected from technology – completely (also a hard one!)
– Make time to examine and reflect….That’s what I’m doing right now.
~Kirri
That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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