it’s time to get the basics in place

And I don’t mean kicking your own butt because if you have not been doing what you very well know you should be doing;
Deeper powers are at play.

Your willpower is there to move your fired up, ready to rock,  Self forward!

But your enemies, whether internal or external sabotage;
Require a battle plan.

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I am not sure when I will break my silence about this, but probably sooner rather than later, I will tell you what happened.
What it was that has pulled the rug from underneath me, after a lifetime of peace, pleasure and privilege.
All of which were even more brittle and more special than I already, gratefully, acknowledged they had been.
I had never taken them for granted.

However it took until it all fell apart, both from parts of my life no longer functioning as well as an unnamed feeling of misery and despair, all accompanied by a steady stream of widely varying health complaints,  from which years of sleep deprivation must have been the most undermining one, that I realized my whole life prior to that?
Had been a blessing of the highest order.

I had done nothing.
And I had received, everything.
Until something stopped working, but it wasn’t visible on the outside.

Yet everything had changed.
I am no longer the person I used to be.
She’s gone.

Now, on the cusp of getting my health and myself back, I can reflect and let the lessons sink in, of which there are many.
But the most important one is;
Don’t force yourself into doing something. Not even into chasing your dreams. The only work that can be successfully, is the one flowing out of you.

Now, I am defining “work” in an unconventional way here!
I mean:
What you do with the hours you can choose.

There can be many reason why we force ourselves to do work that pays us, even when it comes at the expense of having to sacrifice many things that are important to us.
I am not saying that is healthy, but it is an entirely different conversation.

What I mean is this;
Do not, in the hours that you have to devote yourself to the things that matter, MAKE yourself chase your dreams.

Instead get into the full acknowledgement that you are not, and that if those are really your dreams?
Well;
Then something is very, very wrong.

Imagine that you’re head over heels in love with someone, and simultaneously it is a tremendously busy time at your job.
You STILL make time to connect with that special someone.
Hell or high water.

That’s how it is with you and your dreams, and you know that.
You are naturally inclined to chase them, just like you are magnetically drawn to people you are in love with.

When you are healthy, as I have been the majority of my life, being happy, energetic, excited and doing the work (and “chasing” the people!) you have a passion for, is abso-fuckin’-lutely effortless!!!!

It does not require:
Planning.
Journaling.
Vision boarding.
Therapy.
Coaching.
An expert.
Drugs.
Emotionally regulating yourself.

It does not even require chocolate, and that is saying something because practically all things require chocolate 😉

Chasing, living, building your life, when you’re feeling good, does not require ANYTHING!
And it gives you everything.

So if you are not doing that, stop beating yourself up over it. Immediately. Starting now.
And acknowledge that something has been undermining your “efforts” (which should not have been efforts), undermining your life.

You have, an enemy.

External or internally; Something or someone requires you to stand up for yourself.
Your existence is under threat, physically, financially, or emotionally.

After acknowledging your life is indeed at stake, your task is to come up with a plan on how you are going to tackle that.
What are your resources?
Who are your allies?
Who have fought the same war, and might be willing to be your advisor or spokesperson?
Come up, with a real battle plan.

Once that is in place, your final step is to decide on the timeslots you’re taking time off from thinking or fussing about it.
To win your time back.
Your mind, your thoughts.

Even if 99% of your life is unchanged;
That 1% that you can now see as separate, that one moment where you can just breath and be, with yourself.
That is you, getting your basics in place.

And then you can reconquer your life from there.

~Suzanne
Rock Star Writer

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