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Howdy Folks and Good Day!
To say it’s challenging to balance all our responsibilities to ourselves and
others is an understatement. Then comes the challenge of balancing self-care versus getting
stuff done! While we know how important
it is to love and nurture ourselves, we also have outside responsibilities to
meet, and the holidays add even more requirements.
How DOES one balance it all?
I have to admit I haven’t perfected a technique yet. If anyone has, please do share it with us! But I have found some things which help.
* Make a List
Making a list and checking it twice is a good starting point for all of us – not just large jolly old elves with a tight delivery schedule!
Seriously, make a list of everything you both want and need to do including self-care activities. Group your list into categories.
I break mine down into things such as: phone calls, e-mail, healing work, computer work, house work, errands, self-care, school work, and other.
By grouping things into categories, I’m more effective. For instance, I make all my phone calls at once instead of spread through-out the day; the same applies to answering e-mail, running errands, etc. I get into the rhythm of what I’m doing and it gets done a lot faster than if it were spread out in between other things.
* Prioritize and Eliminate
As I’m double-checking my list, I prioritize and look for things that might not be necessary or can be combined. For instance, I can use the bank that’s in my grocery store or just take cash back while checking out instead of stopping at the bank to make a withdrawal.
Is there anything you can eliminate all together? Is there anything that needs to be done immediately? Is there something you can put off until next week if it would be more appropriate or more effective to do it then? This helps reduce the number of tasks.
A little pre-planning and preparation can really go a long way!
* Include Self Care on Priority List
Perhaps the most important thing on the to-do list is the self-care category. Incidentally, this is the one which often seems the easiest to overlook. . . at least until body, mind, and spirit let us know about it!
That’s why I started making Self-care part of my to-do list. I create a little chart of daily activities for my self-care and check them off as I do them. I include things like eating fresh fruit or vegetables with every meal, drinking 6-8 glasses of water per day, doing yoga and/or Pilates, going for a walk, soaking in a sea-salt bath, meditating or doing Reiki, the “I Send You Love” exercise, journaling or writing positive affirmations, and reading part of positive book.
Except for the water, fruits and veggies, and yoga, I don’t require myself to do each one of these every day but I give myself credit for all the ones I choose to do. Because they’re actually on my to-do list, it helps me give myself permission to do them! And even do them first and foremost.
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Another way to help balance responsibilities and self-care is to work with our body’s natural rhythms instead of against them.
I’ve noticed I’m much more likely to WANT to do yoga and Pilates
BEFORE eating breakfast. And because I have the most energy before
* Positively Program Mind and Emotions
Positively programming one’s mind and moods is another thing which helps keep us balanced.
Starting the day by reading something inspiriting, or sending myself love anytime I feel drained or down, helps pick me up and keep me going throughout the day.
* Positively Program the Day
Take a few moments to visualize the day going the way you’d like it to “with grace and ease.” Asking God and the angels for help in manifesting these desires helps set the tone for a great day.
When I expect to have a really good day and I’ve asked for divine assistance in creating this day, very often I get what I expect!
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Learn the art of saying no and asking for help! Need I say more?
* Take Time to Figure Out What Works for YOU!
Take a few minutes to reflect on what works for you – as well as what doesn’t work. Eliminate what doesn’t work and bring in more of what does. Pay attention as you go through your day and be on the look-out for things which help you. Ask yourself questions such as:
What can I do to balance work and my Self care?
What keeps my body, mind and spirit balanced?
How can I better incorporate those things into my daily routine?
“God, Angels, Higher
Self, please tell me what I need to know in order
function effectively for my highest good and with grace and ease.”
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Most of the above suggestions are very basic and you’ve probably heard them many times before. The question is: Are you incorporating them or something else that works for you?
Taking care of ourselves and maintaining a sense of balance or feeling grounded and centered is a really important part of good health and enjoying life. It’s essential to loving ourselves and our lives.
I invite you to take some time to examine your life and incorporate that which will help you feel balanced and at your best. You’re worth it!
With Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…
Rev. Jeanette
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“The deepest healing of our lives
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It’s the kindness that we give ourselves.”
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When we can 'keep up' with our responsibilities, our health, our time for ourselves to relax and have fun, our income needs, then indeed we have been blessed.
So I pass the blessing on to you. May you always be able to 'keep up!'
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By
ESCALATOR ANGEL
It was our problem. Our issue. Our business. But somebody – a total stranger, if you can believe it – decided to stick their nose into it.
And I’d just like to say thanks.
We were traveling as a family group – my wife, Anita, her parents and her brother and his wife – and were trying to find a place to sit during a long layover at a busy airport. Brent (Anita’s brother), who logs more business flight time than Superman, was leading us to an area where he figured we could find a bench or two for us and our luggage. We dutifully followed him down the airport escalator, with me – as always – bringing up the rear (I don’t know why I am always last in line; I think it has something to do with being the youngest of eight children and always being told by my mother that “last is best of all the game” – whatever that means).
We were gliding toward the bottom of the long escalator when I noticed a commotion ahead. As Brent reached the floor below, his sandal somehow became wedged in the collapsible escalator stairs. He struggled to pull away from the mechanical teeth that were chewing up his sandal, and in his struggle he lost his balance and fell back onto his father, who was standing right behind him on the still-moving escalator. Immediately my father-in-law was involved in the same struggle against the suddenly menacing metallic monster, which now was chomping on one of his shoes as well as Brent’s sandal, and he fell back against his wife.
The moment is still frozen vividly in my mind. Here at the tail end of a wonderful trip together, we were about to be eaten alive by a mechanical conveyance. Everything seemed to move in horrifyingly slow motion as we all tried to quickly understand what was happening and determine an appropriate response. Should we jump over the handrail to the floor 20 feet below? Should we leap down the escalator and try to free Brent and his father and risk making things worse (I have this big, clumsy body and no mechanical ability – believe me, I know all about making things worse)? Should we start running against the crowd back up the escalator?
I was still working numbly through the possibilities – the perfect response finally hit me about 15 minutes later – when a sound caught my attention. At first I thought it was the toothy, motorized beast snarling as it continued to chew away at shoes and pull a full load of dazed travelers inextricably toward its brutal steel jaws. Then I realized it was a cry – not a full-blown scream, but clearly a call for help – coming from my mother-in-law, who was absorbing the brunt of the predicament, stretched out as she was on the escalator steps with her husband, her son and a few odd pieces of luggage piling on top of her.
I reached out for Anita, who was next in line behind her mother and was about to be drawn into the rapidly escalating (if you’ll pardon the expression) crisis, just as the escalator stopped. We moved quickly to get everyone up and off the machine. For the next hour we dealt with the aftermath – filling out reports, working with technicians to free one sandal and one shoe from the escalator’s “jaws of death,” and a much-needed visit with airport paramedics for Anita’s mother. Things were just beginning to calm down when I asked my father-in-law, who understands all things mechanical, if the jammed footwear had forced the escalator to shut down.
“No,” he said. “Somebody must have hit the emergency ‘off’ button.”
An emergency “off” button? I had seen them on other escalators before, but I hadn’t noticed one on this particular escalator.
“It’s a good thing, too,” Anita’s father continued, “because we were about a second away from real serious problems.” He glanced at his wife, who was badly cut and bruised during the incident (and who, truth be told, is still suffering with some back problems as a result of the experience), and then back at me. “I hate to think what might have happened if that escalator had been going for even another two or three seconds, with people and suitcases piling up…”
I didn’t want to think about it, either. But I do want to think about that stranger who had the presence of mind to push the panic button. What are the odds of having the perfect person – someone who was aware of what was going on around them and knew exactly what to do in a moment of alarm – in the perfect position at the perfect time? How grateful we are as a family for our escalator angel, an everyday hero who was willing to get involved in our problem.
Thank you, whoever you are. Feel free to stick your nose into our business anytime.
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— © Joseph Walker
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