So Life has spun a little bit out of control for me lately. I’m a single parent of 2, count them, 2 high school seniors. Between all their activities, academics, and the all encompassing college application process, as well as all the things I have on my own plate, it’s safe to say that my life has spun completely and totally out of control. I’m overwhelmed and I don’t know how to fix it. Last night was particularly bad for a variety of reasons, and I started out my Monday wondering if I was even going to survive this year, and if I did, would it be worth it.
Well this morning, I had an a blog post to read in my google reader – actually, we won’t even begin to discuss the amount of blog posts because I didn’t check them at all over the weekend. However, one post from Marc and Angel Hack Life – Practical Tips for Productive Living . The post was called 12 Unconventional Habits of Highly Productive People. I was going to just ignore it because I don’t want to be highly productive – at this point, I’ll settle for keeping my head above water. But I realized that was STUPID, I should be productive, I should be proactive, and not reactive so I decided to give it a read.
I’m not going to lie, it’s a good article and everything in it made sense. I don’t know if I can incorporate all the suggestions into my life, but I did find one suggestion that I know I MUST incorporate into my life. Meditation. The authors talked about meditation and provided a great link to another blog Meditation: What it Actually is, Why It’s Awesome and How to Actually Get Started that gave some great tips about meditation, what it is, and what it isn’t.
This is something I can incorporate into my life. More than that, I think it’s something I NEED to incorporate into my life. Do I think it’s a cure all and fix all for all the stress in my life – absolutely not! What I do think is that it is a powerful and amazing tool to help me COPE with all the stress in my life. So I’m going to give it a whirl and see how it goes. The way I see it, things can’t get any worse than they are, and in fact, it will make things a LOT better.
