This week I plan to focus on bringing more balance to my life. Sometimes I get so caught up in something that I think I tend to take things overboard.  For example, I am a major researcher. I may read something online or in a book and if interests me (usually health related) I will spend hours and hours researching it and often this will lead me to researching something else that I have stumbled upon in my original research.  Which is all well and good unless you do not have endless time or if you a family or a job.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. Jessye Norman

Another thing I have noticed recently is that with two little ones there are many times my needs get pushed back to later, and by later I mean I never get back to them.  After awhile this really starts to bother me.  I need some “me” time. I believe this is so important and should be a priority.  I want to focus on turning this around.  I want to carve out a little time each day just for me.  I believe this will help be to be a better wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend.  So this not only benefits me but alot of other important people in my life.

What are you going to do this week to bring more balance in your life?

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This week my intention is to be more Patient!  To go with the flow and not to get so upset over the little things that really in the scheme of life are not worth getting upset over anyway. Everyday brings new challenges and obstacles.  We must decide how we are going to react to them. We should be savoring all these special moments, even the bad ones, because all together these make up our life.  The good and the bad.  We all mess up and make mistakes, we are supposed to… we are not perfect and are not expected to be.  Learning to be patient through all of these times is a challenge.  Probably one of my greatest challenges.  I want to savor all of these little moments because I know in a blink of an eye they will be gone and I will be looking back wishing to have them all back…the good days and the bad ones too.  I’ve read this line many, many times… ”The days are long, but the years are short.”  This is so amazingly true and it always makes me stop and think.  It makes me slow down and appreciate my day just a little more and all the little moments in it.

Do you consider yourself a patient person?  Share any tips you may have for keeping cool in difficult situations.

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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