Equip yourself for
your own needs. [Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom for a Happy Life]
When something is as clear and plainspoken as this, I
realise how easily I forget it, especially when I most need to remember it.
Apply it.
Lately I’ve been adjusting dials and levels. I’ve been
taking inventory and separating the excess from the essential. I’ve been
exploring Where I Am Today without judging it or making any decision about what
it all means or HOW it will all work out.
If there is one thing I have bumped into again and again and
again it is the notion of equiping myself FIRST, then taking care of the other
people and stuff of my Life. It is so simple and I know I understand it, so why
is it I forget it so often?!
Some questions canNOT BE answered in words. Some of the
answers are hidden in my heart, my brain, and mayBE my left pinkie toe.
Perhaps we can
recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them. [Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful,
and Live Intentionally]
I am all for recognising myself DOing it “wrong” and
stopping. Changing is hard, but stopping myself is essential.
I love you, Currie
1 comment:
It took me a long time to learn that I had to take care of myself and meet my needs first or I was not going to be as much help to anyone else as I wanted to be. Giving when you are drained is exhausting. Giving when you are overflowing is easy. ;)
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