Slowing down

January 6, 2009 | Just thinking out loud

I sat in a doctor’s office yesterday, waiting for test results. They all came back GREAT! I had a TIA a month ago, which doctors now believe was a rare side effect to a prescription, a whole different story. But all the numbers say I’m way healthy and will probably be around to torment my children for years to come.

But as I sat in the doctor’s office my eyelids got heavy. I was a tired, tired girl.

To be honest, I would have loved to curl up yesterday, but I had a curriculum assignment to work on, some Christian Writers’ Guild mentees to edit, and a chapter for a book for teens waiting to be written.

Do you ever get that way? Exhausted. It’s been the holidays. Christmas. Lots of family time. Lots of time driving from city to city. Birthdays. Unexpected company. Late nights. Heavy work load.

All of it good stuff. But it’s important to know when it’s time to put the brakes on and slow down. 

A long time ago, when my children were younger, I ached with tiredness. I didn’t know how to say no. I just kept on going and piling more to-do’s on my schedule. I learned when they were about 8, 8 and 9, after a bout with cancer at the ripe old age of 32, that most of the stuff that I counted as priority wasn’t…

Today I have no problem with saying no, but I still have to have a check and balance plan in place because life hasn’t slowed down. In fact, in some ways, it’s busier and more complicated. 

I don’t do a lot that I don’t want to do, but I still do a lot.

Does that make sense?

So I promise that at 5:30 when my work is done today, I’ll turn off the computer and walk with Richard, or have a nice talk, or read a fun book, or maybe engage in a little Wii boxing match or two.

Are you exhausted? Do you need a rest? Do you need to say no, so that you can say yes to the things that matter most to you?

Let’s talk about it.

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