For the past half hour I have been trying, with absolutely no progress, to edit together an interview I did this week. I am now ready to admit that I need help, and that I can’t do everything on my own. I guess this brings us to this weeks topic – delegation.

I’ve been having an interesting week so far. Yesterday I felt very on edge, and was in a little bit of a bad mood. I was not feeling in a state of allowing at all. All I really wanted was to be alone. Turns out that I may have some health issues going on, perhaps caused by the increase in exercise I have been subjecting my body to, and so I am making a much needed trip to the doctor’s office tomorrow to ensure that everything is all-right. All that being said, I wanted to take this time to talk about the importance of taking breaks.

Right now, I am sitting in the library sipping a Blenz dark roast medium coffee, and starring into my computer screen. My eyes are heavy, but I have made a commitment to write these blog posts, and I am following through on that commitment. So, how do you find balance? As I stare dejectedly at my bank account, I feel like I can’t take a break because I need to be constantly moving forward… but at the same time I need to take a break or else I am going to crash. Actually, if I sit and experience the exhaustion that overwhelms my body as I type, I think I have already crashed but my mind just refuses to give up.

Here’s where I believe I have erred – I have mistakenly deemed rest as unimportant. I have equated idleness as laziness, and I immediately become antsy within 10 minutes of sitting still. Maybe the lesson here is that I need to appreciate and make time for all different aspects of life: rest, work, play, and activities which help to maintain my health. I don’t believe that play and rest are the same thing. Rest involves allowing yourself to sit back and do nothing – sort of a meditative state where your mind and body can reboot. My system is definitely in need of a reboot. I need to re-motivate myself, as I have another six month program coming up in September that I need to (and will be) ready for.

Circling back to the topic of delegation – I don’t need to do this alone. I suddenly became emotional at the end of class today as the exhaustion finally caught up with me. I was then overwhelmed by the support of my classmates who rushed to my side, noticing that there was something off about me, to make sure that everything was okay. They brought me food, made me laugh, and Katie even walked me to the clinic. I felt so much love, and I was (and am) so appreciative. How this fits in with delegation, is that I realized that I don’t need to do this alone. There is a school full of instructors and students who are going through the same journey as me. We are here to help each other achieve our dreams. This is not a competition. Life is not a competition. Life is about connecting with and loving other people, and always remembering to smile. Life is about laughter. Life is about happiness. Bottom line, life doesn’t have to be so hard.

My success today, will be whatever I do to relax.