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Everything……or……Nothing?

12/03/2013 by Aruni

Well, after working ten days in a row, I drove home to a Thanksgiving/Chanukah weekend celebration, delighted with myself, with life, for making it through so effectively. I did good! And I knew it.

But as I drove my car into the garage, I thought to myself, “Why does my throat hurt?”.

And I walked into the house, I thought, “Why am I sneezing?”

As I slept and slept with aches and pains that night, I thought, “Why is this happening?”

You guessed it: it’s the old Everything or Nothing theory of life.

Show up for work–be fully/beyond/fully there. Then crash into life, recovering yourself enough to be able to return.

To return to……

Work.

There is something wrong with this formula.

Well, I was able to salvage some of the holiday. And I didn’t get horridly sick. Just sick enough–to feel like mild crap.

So I’m here to declare: I choose life. I choose to find a way of working that is moderate and modified. I choose to create a schedule that makes sense, that conserves my energy, not just for teaching and coaching, but for that great foggy thing–life.

So, yet again, let me say: I choose my life, not just my work.

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