Quite often, I find myself thinking back to Marian Tompson's three steps for success: love yourself, love those closest to you and love what you are doing and in that order. I am ok at these, but know that to live out my life's mission I need to master them. Particularly putting living myself at the forefront.
I'm great at stimulating my intellectual well-being. I can and make it a priority to consume new information, ideas, books, articles, podcasts, etc. I have amazing friends and family that I spend time with often and fill me up with joy. I usually get lots of sleep. All of those I get an immediate benefit from or I feel like I'm accomplishing something when I do these kinds of things. They come easy to me for whatever reason.
Loving myself enough to take time to be still and active are what I'm working on right now. I've always had trouble being still. This blog has been a good baby step as it forces me to think about what I'm expiering/have experienced though I feel I'm doing something "productive". It has a deadline and accountability. I've fumbled with trying to start a meditation or even yoga practice. Start and stops here and there. Nothing that has stuck yet.
The second thing I'm trying to work through is making time to be active. I run, I've done triathlons, I swim, do yoga, nothing has turned into a habit though. When push comes to shove it falls off my schedule. I also have it easiest than most working at a place that is all about healthy living and runs a recreation centre as part of its mandate. And yet, time seems to slip away.
I don't really have an answer to this yet or a plan of how to make progress. I know I need to make time to focus on both of these things and that it's only me standing in my way. With that knowledge I know I'll figure it out. I'm better than I was a few years ago and there's a good chance this is my lesson to be learned and figured out over my whole life.
Being a Force for Good 