What needs to be completed?

What have you been putting off?

What have you been dragging your feet on?

WHY??

So many ideas and not enough time to do them all. I find myself starting projects and getting real interested in a thought. I put all kinds of passion into it and allow it to take on a life. Then suddenly I find myself with a new idea, a new interest, and that old one goes on the pile never to be completed, to be brought to its full potential. URGH...

I end up feel guilty, lazy, unfocused. resentful that I must sleep and rest. What a crazy cycle...These days I am pausing before I step into a new idea and ask myself, how does this fit in? Is this more important, better, easier, than the last idea? Am I just drawn to the new, the birthing, the developing of ideas and less interested in making them happen. I have finally realized that the energy of developing a concept is pretty useless unless I am to bring it to life. What is the point of all these half baked ideas just sitting in a pile!!

It is when something comes to life, we are able to fully enjoy and be awed by the process of creation. When I am able to commit to starting and completing a work, is when I am truly fulfilled. I get to stretch myself in areas of creation that are hard for me. The implementation phase is always hard for me. I often view it as less fun, less challanging. Yet what I am finding myself having to do is to stretch into finding new ways to look at this phase.

When I am able to look at implementation as needing my creative skills and full passion, I am moved to action in new and more enjoyable ways. I have been working on bringing my creativity into all places of my life, even the production process...

It requires thinking, analyzing, and revision, that is so akin to the creation of a idea to begin with. It is clearly just a point of view that I can choose to shift into if I truly want my ideas to come to life.

So today I will keep the commitments I have made to several current projects and allow the new ideas to sit and wait their turn.

So what needs to be completed? And what needs to wait in your life?

Knowing When to Push

So how do you know when to push yourself, when to give yourself a break?

Where is the line? What are the limits you set? What are the barriers you push?

Physically, mentally, spiritually?

These days I feel like I really need to be conscious of how and when I push myself. I am making so many changes happen in my life, yet I need to be able to say when!!

I often find myself pushing beyond my limits and finding myself, wiped out, on all levels. So many people I speak to are talking about the same thing. Not good! So much of the conversation is about not even enjoying things they usually do, on all levels. Walking through life on autopilot.

Keeping a realistic gauge is critical to my sense of well being and happiness. I know when I have a balance of work; play, rest, and prayer times, life is good. Setting realistic goals and times to achieve them is imperative to me.

It is in the checking in with myself in a routine and conscious way, that I am able to keep it all in alignment and perspective. Setting some time to take a look at, where I have been, where I am and where I want to go, is critical. When I think I can skip it, I often find myself with too much to do and not enough time. I find myself cranky, unmotivated and worse, going in circles.

I clearly benefit from this check in and achieve my goals in a more intentional and joyful way. I get to be at choice, instead of swayed by this crisis or that fire. I get to set my limits and feel satisfied that I am doing the things I want to do. I get to choose when I would like to stretch myself and when I rest.

When can you find some time regular time to take time to reflect and plan?