One Ball Up, One Ball Down - Learning How to Juggle

Again and again clients come to me with the same dilemma, how can I do it all. My response is how many balls can you juggle consistently? As I gathered my new ball of expanding my business I seemed to have picked up an old familiar hitch hiker, red wine.

Saturday night I indulged in two wonderful glasses of red wine and a square of dark chocolate. I had been busy de-cluttering the dogie area and feeling satisfied that it was spic and span I put on my new Tori Amos CD, lit some candles and enjoyed the indulgence of it all.

Sunday I had a wonderful day going to temple and then we did our big monthly shop requiring two shopping carts! With my need for full cupboards satiated and an abundance of food my dad arrived for dinner. I started out with the intention of water and perhaps some pomegranate juice but my will was weak and before I knew I was sitting chatting on the deck glass after glass of wine in hand.

Monday I launched a new Success Circle. 8 wonderful women showed up and the evening was a huge success. At 10 PM I arrived home with one glass of wine and a square of chocolate firmly in mind, by midnight I had a bottle of red under my belt.

My preoccupation with expanding my business and the energy involve, physically and mentally has caused me to drop my pure indulgence ball. Working on the menu, check in sheet, agenda etc has taken the space reserved for meditation, unwinding and reading, my new read wine. I have hardly picked up a book in 2 days!

Today I fully intend to pick up the ball. With all this reshuffling and chaos of Kirk being laid off I need the stability of schedule to anchor me once again. I am returning to the "ideal day" drawing board.

Designing you ideal day is a wonderful tool to discover new and rediscover old habits and routines. It's an opportunity to:

• Dream a little, don't restrict yourself with time, money or any of the commitments you have right now.
• Create an ideal schedule full of things that make your mouth water, that enthuse you and give you life.
• Then after you have given yourself free reign take some time to picture yourself and visualize yourself enjoying your new schedule.
• It's great to post it or put it up in a prominent place as a reminder where you are heading.
• Then begin to bring in little pieces of your ideal schedule into today.
• At first it may be a 5 minute walk instead of a 90 minute hike every day.

You may have to make some compromises but use challenges as a stimulus to be creative and come up with creative ways to bring the essence of your ideal schedule into you life now. If you long for a chauffeur and a limousine to take you to your appointments perhaps while you are waiting for the abundance to arrive you could utilize a different kind of chauffeur a bus or the train. Get to the bottom of what you are looking for, in the above situation the important factor may be that you don't want to drive not that you want to travel in style. What you will undoubtedly find is that it is the little things that mean the most to us, that feed us. There may be some high ticket items involved but the things with staying power tend to the little things, champagne and caviar get old after a while but moms apple pie never does.