A Clearer View of Life Priorities – After a Break
Tonight I arrived home after two weeks of fun travel, events with friends, connection with the natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains, time away to think and feel. I am back and cannot sleep because my head is spinning with ways that I want to change my life, my business, my focus, my priorities, my health, my landscaping, my interior decoration, among just a few things rattling around in my head!
Even though I have at times resented vacations because they disrupt the flow of life, this is actually a blessing for me! I am rather intense at times and can easily flip into a Type A personality and workaholic. This is not a pretty sight, is not good for my personal relationship with my mate, is stressful and generally unhealthy when I put my work before my SELF. It is good to have a break where I can look back at the life I’ve been living and have a clear perspective, based on my innermost values, of how I’d like to adjust the direction in which I’ve been heading and reshape my vision of where I am going.
Being away, having limited access to internet and telephone, depending on others to keep my business running, experiencing the lifestyles of friends we visited, changing eating habits, exercising at 9000 ft. altitude, experiencing new situations and adjusting my attitude accordingly, has all given me a new and broader perspective of my own life and its patterns and habits. I am grateful that I’ve had this experience – so that I can change and evolve.
One of the main concepts that I am going to adopt now more into my life is the concept of simplifying everything. Living out of a suitcase and a borrowed car, visiting others, and moving to several venues during a two-week period shows me that I am very happy without so much “stuff”. I also notice that I learned how to streamline my internet access during the trip and unsubscribed from many lists and reported lots of spam – so that I won’t be bothered by so much in-coming mail in the future. I also realize that I didn’t miss the weekly meetings, deadlines, stresses that I place on myself to jump through various hoops – just because others are doing something in a certain way. I feel that now I’ll be able to return to that path of honoring mySELF before honoring anybody or anything else, and the result will be that I will be able to better serve my clients, friends, family – and will have much more FUN doing it!!
It is easy for me to coach clients to see where they might be out of balance. Sometimes it takes a trip away from my life to see where my own life is out of balance. Now I will put back into place the best practices for my own energy management, keeping my highest values of Peace, Love, Joy in mind, so that these values are supported and reflected in every task that I perform.
I am grateful that I’ve had this opportunity!
And, as synchronicity often happens, I have just come upon a wonderful short video clip from the Abraham-Hicks work that reflects on this focus on contrasts in life in order to evolve to a new level. To view the video you may go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqZQfxra4ws&feature=rec-HM-r2. Enjoy!
