Happy Sunday to you. Now is it just me or do weekends feel less relaxing than they used to? The working week is full ON, of course, but also the weekends?1 The pace of life really does seem to have sped up these last years and it’s impossible to keep all the balls in the air to the level that we would like to. Perhaps you sometimes feel like you are failing or not giving enough in certain spheres of your life. If that’s so, I want you to know that
a)you are not alone and
b)anyone who looks like they are ticking all the boxes on everything isn’t really and
c)if you have got three of these areas of life going well you are actually DOING GREAT:
Also, I’d love everyone to know that
d)we all have times in our life where we are not hitting even three. Might not be hitting ANY. It happens to the best of us. Sometimes life kicks our ass and lays us low. If this is you right now, HOLD ON, this too shall pass. It seems like it won’t, but I promise it will. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will.
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e)When life seems A LOT, and you are trying so hard to keep ALL those balls in the air, decide what I like to call your “LEAD DOMINO” is. (The domino at the front that when you push it, it will then start to push all the others down!). Focus HARD on your LEAD DOMINO.
For most people (not all, as ever, you do you) the LEAD DOMINO is SLEEP. Literally EVERYTHING ELSE IN LIFE IS EASIER WITH MORE SLEEP. It’s easier to eat more healthily if you have had a decent sleep. It’s easier to speak kindly to your partner and not fly off the handle. It’s easier to go for that walk. It’s easier to get the job done at work. When you feel like you have too many balls in the air focus on that LEAD DOMINO that makes all the rest easier for you. It pushes down the domino’s behind it.
So, what’s your Lead Domino? Do you feel like you have too many balls in the air at the moment?
