How to find the balance? Learn the words Sustainable and Simplify!

I had a saying early last week:

When my cup got full, I grabbed a saucer.  Then I grabbed a soup bowl.  I have since added a salad plate and a main course plate.  I now say, "skip the tableware - perhaps I now just need to go straight to the trough!"

If we are blessed with an unending supply of time and energy, perhaps the trough is okay.  However, even then it is likely to still be messy.  The reality of life is there is a limited supply of both time and energy.  When our focus, our time and energy, is split in too many directions, everything suffers.  However, there are things we can do to help bring a bit of balance to the scene and alleviate some of the stress and the energy drain - or at least be sure it is spent on the right things!  To accomplish this, there are a few things we need to keep in mind.

SUSTAINABLE - Able to be sustained.  SUSTAIN: to support the weight of

SIMPLIFY - The word "simplify" is a verb and requires action.  It means to make less complicated, clearer, easier

Each area of life can be asked these questions:

1.  Can current resources (time, energy, funds, etc.) support what is being done or what we want to do?
2.  Are there ways to make an area (function, activity, job, etc.) less complicated or easier?

These are the two questions I'll be using as I move forward - trying to unravel a bit of the mess and chaos and hopefully, finding a bit of peace and clarity.

And we begin....AGAIN!

In the week since the last post, I got everything caught up, everything figured out and am well on my way.  Then I woke and reality slapped me!  Instead, work got busier, things fell further behind and I exhausted myself more than I realized.  I even had to cancel an activity I had been looking forward to for weeks - because I was overly exhausted.  My brain and body had been locked in high gear for too long with no break.  I spent yesterday doing as little as I felt I could get away with and resting.  I'm not a napping person, but the day included 2 naps.  Yep - exhausted.

Where does this put me?  Still a bit tired today and with a big  dose of reality.  Here's my reality:
1.  I am not a machine.  As much as I'd like to think I am, I do not have a fluffy tail and ears and I do not roll around with an Energizer battery beneath my feet.
2.  I have limits.
3.  Those limits are not what they used to be or even what I thought they were.  Reality sucks some times!
4.  I must learn to function within those limits.
5.  If I push those limits, my mind and body WILL crash.

All of the above made it VERY clear to me that I was out of balance!  A closer look would reveal everything is currently out of balance.  It is time to work towards regaining that balance - again.

So...the old blog having glitched out on me, brings me to this new blog - just in time for this new start.  No area will be left unturned, so let's get started.