Put Yourself In A Time Out
First I want to say, Welcome to 2016. I hope this is your best year yet. May it be filled with daily joy. I wish that each day of this year is truly precious for you in every way and that you take care of the most important person in your life… YOU!!!
First I want to say, Welcome to 2016. I hope this is your best year yet. May it be filled with daily joy. I wish that each day of this year is truly precious for you in every way and that you take care of the most important person in your life….YOU!!!
Four years ago, I started on the path of creating my business. I was still working my “very” full-time corporate job. I say “very” because forty hours a week as full-time in my corporate life was really more of an unspoken guideline. In reality, it occupied a lot more than forty hours of my week, but that didn’t deter me at all from doing what I needed to do to get my business started and then ultimately up and running.
I got to the point that I was working two full-time jobs. I was so committed to doing whatever it took, because I had hit a bottom and really wanted to change my life once and for all and I have been going full steam ahead ever since.
This past October, I started traveling even more, all related to my business. More training, more upleveling, adding more tools to my toolbox so I can be more effective when working on my own issues and with my clients.
There have been two times over the last four years that I checked in with myself, because I realized I was “pushing” myself too much and starting to feel burn out coming on.
The first time was about two years ago, while I was working on my business. It occurred to me that the energy I was expending had become quite intense. I had a chat with myself and came to the conclusion that I didn’t want to keep going with this “pushing” energy, because that’s not what I wanted in my own life and certainly not for my clients. I needed to do this for myself first. We often teach what we need to learn.
It came to me, that if I didn’t feel inspired about doing something for my business I wasn’t going to do it and I’ve really practiced that since then and it’s been really good. The part I realize, now, that I missed in this, was really doing this for myself personally.
It came to me, that no matter how much doubt might spring up. No matter what the experts my say, I need to be true to me. There’s so much hype in business around January and fresh starts and it being the best time to create, and I was putting pressure on myself about that. Until I surrendered.
I just didn’t have it in me. I was worn out. So I put myself in a time out. That can be scary, because it goes against everything I’ve been told in this industry, but I keep coming back to self trust and Divine Timing.
Coming from corporate, where no one is walking around telling you it’s a good idea to take some time off and effectively put yourself in a time out and trust yourself and understand that there’s such a thing as Diving Timing that has nothing to do with the should’s, have to’s, or even the right way to do something, because all the statistics prove it.
I wanted to share this story with you, in the hopes that it might help you check in with yourself and see if you need to Put Yourself in a Time Out. With all that goes with the holidays, it can really just be more pressure on you. You might not be able to tell your boss you need a time out, but can you give yourself a daily time out.
- Sit and have a cup of tea.
- Take an hour just for you to do what feels inspiring to you.
- Read that book that’s been sitting on your nightstand.
- Take a walk in nature.
Whatever your version of giving to yourself is. It’s telling yourself that you matter. That you’re not a machine, just cranking out your life.
Life happens in moments.
Can you do something for yourself that feeds your soul and fills you back up?
This is was Putting Yourself In A Time Out means to me. I have done this the past few days and I feel my battery beginning to recharge. By doing this, I’m totally, freely, inspired to write this email.
There was no “pushing” about it and I believe this is the best way to create in your life.
It’s a good time, with a New Year, to start out this year, putting yourself first. Recharging your battery, so that you can show up for your life and those in your life from the best possible place.
By giving to yourself first, you model for others and allow them to do the same.
Here’s to Putting Yourself in a Time Out!!!
Marti