During the summer months, feeling behind can get the best of me if I don’t learn how to pace myself. I have my regular home routines of the 9 habits from Marilyn’s Way Dance Till You FLY! System, gardening and lawn care, and any summer projects. This year the summer project is painting my house.
Today I was beginning to have those feelings of “Feeling Behind”. Where does it come from? It was time for me to find out.
Habit
It is this never ending cycle we have come to learn. The problem is it becomes normal, familiar and automatic. Yes, it becomes ‘Habit’.
I will be honest with you. The feelings of always ‘feeling behind’ has been the biggest challenge to correct for me. This morning I caught myself in the cycle once again.
How Did I Get Here Again?
It always amazes me when I get into this state of mind. I am wondering how I got here, where in fact I already know.
I Went Off The Beaten Path
This summer I have an extra project besides gardening and taking care of the yard. The project involves painting my house. I have a good start at it. Then it rained for a few days. Now I have had to wait a few days to let the wood dry out to prevent the paint from bubbling. I got to tell you. I was really getting into the zone! The problem was I was skipping a few of my Marilyn’s Way Dance Till You FLY! 9 habits I practice daily.
One can get away with skipping a habit here and there but when one doesn’t do a particular habit for 3 days, the 4th day we are naturally going to get that feeling of ‘feeling behind’. It becomes the never ending cycle again.
Not only this, but the weekly habits I practice haven’t been consistent the past couple of months. It is in these habits I am now learning one can skip the weekly habits on specific days only once in awhile. It is the weekly habits that must stay consistent if we ever want to overcome the feeling of ‘feeling behind’.
Be Open To Self-Awareness
The only way one can find a solution to every problem is by becoming self-aware. The greatest gift we can give ourselves is ‘self-awareness’ by accepting the fact we are in fact human and there are going to be times we get off the beaten path. If during the time we are practicing our daily, weekly and monthly habits we learn to F. L. Y. by First Love Yourself in order to love others, those feelings of feeling behind will show up at your door maybe for a morning verses having the ‘feeling behind’ become overwhelming and lasting over a week.
There are some other ways to overcome ‘feeling behind’. I will be writing about it in a future post. For now, the following are 9 Daily Habits with 1 weekly habit and 1 monthly habit called ‘zone work’. If you can begin to practice these, I promise you will overcome ‘feeling behind’.
Daily Habits
Weekly Habits
Monthly Habits
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