Getting the best out of you!

Are you tired of all the doing? Wouldn’t you like a little bit of time just to be you? Life is in the being and not in the doing. We mentally agree to that with a huff and a puff and a rebuttle of, “Yeah, but you should see my schedule!” Never have enough time? Always running from task to task? Desiring to scream, “Stop! I want to get off !” but can’t find your voice or the time to do it?
You can schedule time for you! You are in charge of the schedule you make and there is time in every day for you, if you’ll reevaluate life! What do you believe you’re here for? To do? To accomplish? To complete tasks? To ‘get it all done’ — only to find that most of it needs to be redone again? What’s driving you? If you’re really tired of it all, you can change your life! Driven people usually believe it’s the people around them that require their busyness, but if we look inside, the deep desire is to be noticed and accepted or approved. Why would you ruin your health without something driving you to do so? It’s not common sense to burn yourself out. Change can come but it won’t be overnight.
  You must first realise that your life is not about what you do! I believe we were created to fellowship with our God and the world He created for us. The world has become a rat race of who does the most and who does it best. Do you have conversations with people where you recite the list of things you did the day before? Or have you done it as an answer to a question from somebody who wants you to do something else? The first thing we have to realise is that life will go on without us. That is beyond some people’s imaginations. We tend to think everything will fall apart if we’re not working the schedule. Sit down and take an inventory. Write down every task you do — daily, weekly, and monthly. Now that you’ve got your list, don’t let pride take over. It will look like it’s impossible for one person to really do all of that!
  So, instead of pride, how about a good dose of remorse? You’ll get a good start on that when you make your second list. Write down everything that you ‘don’t have time to do’ that you would like to do. Include in that the things your family would put on that list — after all, why bother to have a family, if you don’t want to share life with them? Also list the really important stuff that you think would make life worthwhile. Now look at the two lists. Pretend that you just moved out of the country and you are going to get a fresh start on deciding what you want your life to include. You’ll have to picture yourself out of the country, knowing nobody yet, because we pressure ourselves into doing all kinds of things because of what ‘somebody’ might think or want.
  Circle the things from either list that would make up a “My Life Is…” list. Now that you can see all the things that you really don’t want to be doing, how about scheduling a plan to get rid of those tasks. You can adopt a frugal lifestyle which would allow you to pay somebody to do the necessary things that you might not really want to do. With a clear mind, you can go a long way towards what you consider real life to be.
  It is okay to say “No”. You may be the spark that lights somebody else’s attempts at being who they really want to be also. Lead by example. Begin to simplify your life. In doing so, you may shuffle around a few friends. Those who still can’t believe it can be done, or those who believe that what they do is who they are, will flee. As you change, you will draw unto yourself those who are on the path back to simplicity. Those who have a little more peace than you do. We are not indispensable. Take hold of your life and schedule Peace and Joy instead of Hurry and Worry. And imagine what it’ll do for those around you!
  The world will still be okay if you take time to find out who you are and what you’ve been created for. We often miss our destiny and purpose in life because we get caught up in the tyranny of the urgent.
  Separate yourself and be who you were designed to be, says Donna L Watkins
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