A few days ago I was driving back from picking up some flyers I had printed for my BNI meeting when I realized I had more important things to do. I had an “ah ha” moment about how I try to do everything and how it is physically and emotionally impossible. I had thought that before, on an intellectual level, but today I felt it in my entire being.
There is no way I can be successful in our fitness business, with my coaching/training business or in my relationship. Doing everything leaves no room for “being”, no room for creativity, no room for spending time with family and friends.
Last January, to cut expenses and stay in business, I took back the bookkeeping, let my VA go, and put my nose to the grindstone–OK, you youngsters out there may not know that metaphor, but just visualize it and see how much fun (NOT) that is. I stopped going to events that cost too much money, and began to shrink instead of grow.
In mid-August, I became ill with some unknown virus and was knocked flat on my back for a couple of weeks. Today, a month later, I am still exhausted and have no stamina, and often feel like I am “coming down with something”. This illness has also been a wake up call to STOP doing and return to being with what is; to find those places, people, events that bring joy and growth and go for it.
I feel a certain sense of freedom now, and much less stress as I let go of things that don’t serve my purpose, and add back activities that bring me joy.
I’m making FUN my middle name.
