Giving yourself the greenlight
You’ve heard the old saying physician heal thyself, but we all know how easy it is to see the how others could just do some minor tweaking and improve their lives and yet, we struggle like ants with a crumb trying to scale a curb.
I was speaking to my life coach the other day and he said he was looking at three areas in his life and giving them priority – health, fun, and recharging. I passed this advice onto a friend I met for coffee this morning before heading to attend to my computer YET ONE MORE TIME.
On the way to the computer fixer, I thought, damn, I need to focus on my own health – I haven’t really worked out since November last year, and I haven’t really cared one fig if I ever worked out again. While this might seem like the norm, it isn’t for me, I really love to get physical and not moving my body also makes the rest of me seem inactive.
And fun – well, having been indoors for two weekends in a row bookends the fun I did have in New York and I just think that maybe I had a little too much fun, and so perhaps my marching orders would be to spread it out and not drink gin and tonics like it were my job or something.
Re-Charge – here too, I need to work on down time as I’ve been caught up with entirely too many projects both professionally and personally to actually take the downtime necessary to restore. Pay closer attention to meditation and states of relaxation.
So today, I knew I was going to have to deal with my computer, so I wiped everything off my morning schedule and since I had an hour between dropping Tin off and meeting the computer fixer, I met a friend for coffee. I gave myself a doable pace and didn’t spas out about the fact that I wasn’t sitting at my computer, wasn’t firing off replies to emails, wasn’t writing or culling or typing or beginning another to do list. I just simply did those three things – took Tin to school, met a friend for coffee, and went and had my computer fixed.
I’m also consciously not checking my iPhone at every red light or pause. Just because.
Greenlight – GO.