Everyone’s talking about how busy they are now.
It’s official.
The spacious, expansive feeling of summer has been replaced by schedules, carpools, lunches to pack, and new goals to achieve, if you’re an entrepreneur and a mom like many of the stupendous women I work with.
I’ve been hearing, since Labour Day, that there’s no time to plan, shop, and prepare healthy food for yourself.
“I’m too busy”, I hear, and then get a long list of all the demands on them.
I say it too, even though I know it’s crap.
It’s just a made up saying that I use when I want to make excuses for not doing what I really want to do.
And, here’s how I know – whenever I say “I”m too busy to… go to the gym/make a salad/meditate etc.” I feel tightness just above my belly button – that’s my lie detector.
I want to suggest to you that your “I’m too busy to….” is also a lie – even if it’s just a tiny one.
If you’re protesting, and you want to send me your schedule to prove it, stop a moment.
I hear you. I know that every minute is scheduled, and you’re taking care of kids, pets, parents while you’re building your business.
Me too.
(Well, not the pets.
I don’t want to cohabit with nonhuman animals, although the Universe may be wanting me to change, because lately a number of animal activists and rescuers are hiring me, for which I’m grateful. So don’t tell them OK? I did adopt my daughter’s friend for a few months until her apartment is ready, so I’m also spreading kindness and love, even though it definitely takes more time)
So I”m going to prove it to you.
Close your eyes ofr a minute.
Ooh. Can’t do that and read your proof experimeint.
OK. read your instructions and then close your eyes.
Stop moving, close your eyes, connect with your body, and tell yourlsef
“I”m too busy to take care fo myself.
I”m too busy to do what I want to do.
IU’m too busy to … fill in the blank with whatever your ‘thing’ is
And feel how that feels in your body.
Now I’m no fortune teller but
But I want to introduce you to a concept that Gay Hendricks taught me, which kind of blew my mind, until I tried living with it and found that it helped eradicate my belief that I’m too busy to achieve my goals.
Hendricks write that we create time.
Yes, you too. every one of us. Time creators.
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