Over the past few months I have been asked more than once how I manage to get everything done. I work a full time job and commute 4 hours a day and still make time to paint and draw, as well as all the other day to day life stuff. The main thing that helps me get things accomplished is making a list of priorities and then matching that up with available time, which tends to rearrange the priorities list. There are some thing I have to wait for the weekend in order to do. Conversely there are some things that irregardless of time need to get done on the weeknights.
First, I ask myself what am I currently involved in? I make a list of all the things I do everyday, from friends I speak with to groups and organizations I belong to and website and e-groups I read, anything that takes time.
Next, I ask myself what are my priorities? I write a list of things I want to get done or be involved in etc. This is where I connect with my heart and ask my self what do I need in my life, what is my soul purpose?
Now I look at both lists, how do my priorities and current life obligations match up? How do the things in my first list feed and nurture my priority list? If it doesn’t, then I need to consider letting it go or lowering my exposure to it.
I have found that sometimes, the people, organizations and events I’ve associated with were not nurturing my soul needs. So I had to make some decisions around this. I could stay and try and change things and influence things for the better, and again I would have to weight this effort against how it would nurture my soul. The other solution is to simply let them go. I have found that these things tend to quickly vanish from your life once you let go of them, because in truth they were never attached to you either. The friends, organizations and events that nurture you, will hang around, even after seemingly long periods of silence, make you feel good about yourself and about life.
So figure out what is detracting you from your goals in life. How and why are they detracting? Can you reorientate yourself to them or do you need to let them go completely? For myself it is a long process of doing a little bit at a time, then checking everything again, make adjustment again and live my life, then stop and check again. It’s well worth the effort as you begin to find yourself satisfying your soul needs. Now to figure out how to work the gym back into my schedule, hmmm.
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