21 October 2014
Under the Abbey Kitchen Table, Iona
I seem to be experiencing a little bit of a parallel in my life. In class we are encouraged (actually, required) to clean as we go. Some of us are better at it than others...
I am good most of the time. Sometimes I am delayed by other people's procrastinating...sometimes it's a perfect storm of delaying at the 3 compartment sink.
I find that I am much better at moving and cleaning up for others than I am for myself. I don't want to inconvenience or disappoint so I expend all my energy cleaning up, etc. for others while letting my stuff pile up. Things like cleaning up/organizing my space, drinking my herbal teas, working on my health coach website/marketing/this blog, etc all get pushed back until after I have done everything else and then I have very little energy for it all. It piles up because I haven't been cleaning as I go.
It's a great lesson for me as a future health coach because one thing I always tell people is that they must take time for themselves in order to be able to be there for others...rather than draining their energy on everyone else before even checking in to see what THEY need. It seems I need to start walking my talk once again.
Now...the trick is to find that balance within my current, busy, schedule. To carve out the time I need for me, while still honoring all the other commitments. My biggest fear is that I will let someone down.
My friends know that i am not one who makes "to do lists," but I think it's time to buy a planner...
"Wasting Thyme" in The Abbey Kitchen, Iona
XO
P.S. You can check out my new health coaching addition to The Lion's Share HERE. It's a work in progress :)