First, this is not a blog post I ever imagined myself writing, it was not planned … I was inspired by my friend Julie who has the best scrapbooking supplies online and she shares some pretty heartfelt parts of her life with her scrapping customers – she is quite real. Her blog post today was about having a good, authentic life. Which has led me to share my yesterday:
Had a very interesting conversation with my Life Coach in Jacksonville. As we start traveling more I guess we’ll move to phone coaching sessions, I do like the face to face contact, perhaps instead of phone coaching – maybe we’ll do it over Skype Video. But I digress.
The interesting conversation was about the “Big Rocks” … If you are not familiar with Steven Covey and First things First, take a look at the video below.
So for me, I have always thought of taking care of myself as “important”, but never as “urgent”. I have tried time and time and time and time and time and time and time again (you get the point) – to work on eating better, getting more exercise, working less, getting more sleep, in general taking better care of myself.
Apparently I am pretty driven – and I honestly have never thought of it that way – I simply thought of it as being responsible and taking care of my family. In the last two years or so I have had to work harder to simply maintain our ever declining market shares in our online ecommerce stores. In addition to the normal workload, I added more consulting clients, wrote a book, helped Toi launch a new local search optimization division and added The Roaming Entrepreneurs as a progressive lifestyle change – all while selling our home, closing our warehouse, reshaping our fulfillment system, reducing staff, learning to shoot and edit video, teaching a 13 week online seminar and taking 2 online classes and moving. Exactly when was I supposed to think about taking care of myself? I know that it’s important – but exactly when could I feel it was also URGENT.
Continued in Knowing is Not Enough Part 2: …my Oprah AHA Moment …
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