Recently I made a declaration for myself which came on the heels of a tirade I was having about my circumstances:

“I’m tired of my crazy schedule!  I’m tired of being pulled in different directions!  I’m tired of never getting a break!  I’m tired of not having enough time for me!  I’m tired of……”  On and on it went until I got sick of hearing myself!

At the end of my rant, I made a declaration to myself that I am determined to live out – “I am empowered to create the reality I want, and I create the reality I want!”  You see for months, I’ve been feeling like I’m burning the candle at both ends and you know what, I’m tired.  The problem is much of it I’ve brought on myself.  There are some hours of the day that I must give to my commitments, but the rest are filled with things that I’ve placed on myself.

When that reality hit me, it was a hard but necessary pill to swallow.

Like many people, there are 101 things I want to accomplish all at once, but only so many hours in the day to accomplish them.  In the hustle and bustle to “be all that I can be,” I lost sight of the being part and began to “do all that I can do.”

Today our society is so geared toward doing a bunch of stuff to accomplish a bunch of stuff that we’ve forgotten the simple joys of just “being” sometimes. The funny thing is we forget that often we figure out how to do stuff when we take time to just be – be still, be quiet, be alone, be wondering, be reflective, be questioning, be thinking, just be.

If you have some big goals you’ve set for yourself and are struggling to achieve them, maybe it’s because you’re trying to do too much.  Make a conscious decision to add some “being” to your life and I’ll bet the answers you’re searching for will come – I know that’s the reality I want to create.

Until next time….