Last weekend a new friend asked me to play racquetball with
her. I warned her about my serious lack of hand-eye coordination but she insisted it would be fine. I’m in a “try anything” stage of my life so I agreed.
Now where to find the time. Finding time to do more than
keep my head above water has been challenging lately but I was determined to work it out. We agreed on Friday at 2pm. This should work for me as I usually try to finish up with one of my 2 careers early on Fridays. Then it happened. Mass chaos with career 1, an
unexpected overwhelming load of work that HAD to get finished. How on earth was I going to make it all come together? I’m tired of canceling this or that to take care of everything else. It’s time to figure it out and just make it happened. I rearranged my schedule, had to cancel attending one event on Thursday night so I could work late, got up early on Friday and skipped my morning run
figuring I would make that up playing racquetball. I did it. I found the time but it was not easy.
How does a woman find the time to do all that needs to be done when she has 2 full time careers, 2 full time kids, 2 full time dogs and a husband? It would be easy to park it on the couch after finishing the necessities and just shut down. I’ve been there and done that. It’s great from time to time but when it become a habit and you discover that you cannot remember the last time you went out and were around people it’s time to rethink your balancing act. A social outlet is an important stress reliever. Time for such events needs to be fit into everyone’s world.
I’m still a work in progress, still seeking balance in everyday life but I’m well on my way. I’m learning to let go of the tasks that just aren’t that big of a deal and embrace a reemergence into the outside world. The world is not going to wait for me. If I want my piece of it I’ve got to Get Up & Get Moving.
