27th March
2013
To live is the rarest
thing in the world. Most people exist,
that is all! Oscar Wilde.
How true is that
quote! I am always telling people life
is too short and yet lately I’ve felt that mine is so full and even though everything
I do is stuff I enjoy, it’s too much to pack into a week, so after 3 months of
thinking and turning stuff over I made a decision to get some of those hours
back. My life has changed a lot over the
last 12 months, I can’t just go away for the weekend at the drop of a hat because
of mom, and I’m not complaining, I’m absolutely fine with that, I want to spend
more time with my mom which is another reason I need to get some of those hours
back.
So I decided yesterday
that I needed to make a change, I got in touch with my boss and asked about
reducing my meetings so that instead of doing a 50 hour week, it’ll be more
like a 40 hour week, she’s agreed so now I’ve just got to wait for it to be
worked out. I want to have more time
with my mom, I need to actually have time to do housework as dull as it may be,
and it has to be done occasionally! And
I want to have the energy to give 100% to my members and my job and at the
moment with everything I’m trying to do, including walking the dog twice a day,
I just feel like I’m chasing my tail, never mind his ;-)
So yes it means a pay
cut and in the current climate that’s probably a silly move but I’m only here
once and so is my mom and I’d rather be money poor and time rich, than time
poor and money rich. I know rushing is
affecting my eating, I sat on Monday and just chatted with the caretakers at my
venue over a coffee as I’d got there early because of the snow – I NEVER DO
STUFF LIKE THAT, because I don’t have time, and I want to, I want to have time
to waste (well actually it’s not even wasting is it) on small talk and chats, I’d
like the energy to get up at the weekend and think ‘right that’s tidy the house
from top to bottom’ (I only wanna do that about every 2 months though, lets not
get carried away), I want the enthusiasm to say to mom come on my works all up
to date lets drive to the seaside and watch the sunset, I want to walk Alfie
without thinking ‘come on Alfie we ain’t got time to go that way’ or wishing he
wouldn’t pee up every lamp-post. Yeah I
want the little things because I did most of the big things when I was younger
and I have no desire to do any of those now, I just want to slow down and enjoy
the day to dayness of life. The only ‘fast’
I want at the moment is the odd MacDonald’s.
I want to spend my
weekends tuned out of work and into me and mine, scrapbooking, enjoying days
out, relaxing, cooking, doing whatever my mood takes me and then when I go back
to work I’m 100% re-energised and ready to give my members 100%.
I’m very fortunate
because I absolutely adore my work, yesterday’s meetings were full of so much
laughter yet we all got support regarding our weight loss, no one left feeling
guilty if they’d over-indulged, my only mission in life is to make every person
out there with a weight problem feel good about themselves, I want a world of “Happy
Owls” (see www.happyowls.co.uk if you don’t know what
that is). No one should feel bad about
how they look and through my work I get to try to help them realise that they
are all BeYouTiful and should Eat Gorgeous for the right reasons.
So yes I’m already
financially not as well off as I was a year or two ago and now because of
cutting my hours I will be more so, but WOW I’m sat here smiling because do you
know what, I can go without certain things, I can cut my cloth so to speak,
heck I saved £24 a month by getting rid of Sky Movies and SkyHD, because I
never have the time to watch the damn films and mom can barely see the screen
let alone tell the difference when it’s in HD! That reminds me I must sort out and change my
broadband supplier now my contract is up!
Food for thought folks,
are you living life in the fast lane, is that one of the reasons you’re
struggling with your weight, is there anything you can do to slow down?
Here’s a bit more food
for thought;
·
If the world has been spinning around you and
your mind has been going along with it, slow down.
·
If the demands to keep up, join up, show up,
stand up are weighing on you, slow down.
·
If the worries, the crying, the tears, the
fighting, the tattling, the middle-of-the-night waking is frustrating you, let
go and slow down.
·
If it feels like a chore, a job, a battle, slow
down.
·
If there is no good reason to go yet you feel
you must go anyway, slow down.
·
If things are just not right, not balanced, and
you’re not saying “Hell, yeah, I got this,” then slow down.
·
Slow down when you find yourself down and out.
Slow down when everything around you says speed up.
·
This week, let’s slow down and let the
unimportant things fall to the side for a bit and let the good stuff — the
stuff that leaves us smiling to ourselves – rise to the top where it should
always be.
Slow down and see
what comes.
I’m off to walk my dog
now and he can pee up as many lamp-posts as he wants ;-)
In the words of Ghandi “There
is more to life than increasing its speed.”
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