Taking time to breathe

I have always loved to work. In high school I had a job as a telemarketer and I sold renewals for magazine subscriptions. One of my favorite lists of calls I was assigned to was trying to get someone who had not had a subscription to Time magazine for over three years to renew their subscription with me over the phone. I had to convince these strangers that they had plenty of time to read Time! I was 17 years old and I had no idea how people did not have time to read a magazine… but that was the primary excuse people gave for cancelling the magazine subscription. No time to read it.

This week at work we are preparing for a capital campaign at Southeast Nebraska CASA. This week, I’m not sure how we will get everything done. “I don’t have time” would be an easy excuse for not writing a blog post this week as honestly, this week I really don’t have time to fit in this to my week…. But when I first started this blog in April, I set a goal to write a post every week. Then life happened, and I always had an excuse of why I did not have time to write a blog, then 2 weeks became 4 weeks and all I was doing was reading about how to write, but I was not writing. This time, I’m shifting my thoughts. These blog posts do not need to be perfect, they just need to happen… Every Day… To prove to myself that I can write something every day for an entire month.

Today, in the middle of the day, I knew I still had a lot to do, but I could feel myself just really getting tired. So I told myself I needed to lay down and just breathe. So I set a timer for 10 minutes, laid on the floor and just took time to breathe… to pause… to ponder…. and then after the 10 minutes to my surprise, I found out that my team had completed a lot of my “To Do’s” (Have I mentioned I have an amazing team). Things are getting done, and I don’t know that my to do list will ever be all checked off… but I do know, I have time to write one blog entry, every day in October… and that is what I’ll do.