Striving for Greatness
Striving for greatness doesn’t have to mean hustling day and night. Living our best life doesn’t have to feel like a constant uphill battle.
Designing and living our best life can be in the little moments – putting away the phone to be extra present, sipping coffee slowly on a Saturday morning, set a walk + talk date with a friend, or even, get this…taking a nap. These are all things that can help us to live our best life – that are not hard work.
Having a good balance of the being and the doing is so important. Our society praises the doers but takes no notice of the “being” side of things. I was so used to (for many years) only the doing part. I would hustle a lot. I would run myself so hard. Every few weeks (like literally every month or so) I would get totally overwhelmed. I realize now it was because I was not factoring in the being part into my life.
Before I get too ahead of myself, here is what I mean by this:
Being - literally just not doing anything, just taking in the moment and allowing stillness. It is defined as the fact of existing.
Doing is defined as action, performance, execution…aka the hustle.
Ok so back to my days of overwhelm, I would go, go, go – be SUPER focussed and motivated and then I would get exhausted, frazzled, burned out. I wouldn’t recognize it and I tried to keep going and force instead of listening to what my body/mind/soul needed.
When this happened, I usually would get so overwhelmed and depressed and want to just stay in bed. I would feel paralyzed, and I wouldn’t be able to make any more decisions or do any sort of action. Sometimes I would start to feel better after a few days, other times it was just a few hours.
Now I look back on it and I’m like right. That happened. It sometimes happens now too, but its different. I know what to do, I know how to handle it better now. And I really pay attention to my intuition that gives me little hints along the way instead of getting full blown out of control.
My message to you is this… Make sure to factor in the being and the rest part of your life, the being. It is so important for your forward momentum and balance while you are creating your best life!
Jen xo