Who are you when you are at your best?

The person I am when I am at my best is funny and joyful and caring and creative. When am I not at my best? I am not at my best at those times when I feel as though I have no say in how I spend my time, (translation, overbooked) or when I am not getting basic needs met as in enough sleep (translation, over extended, no boundaries, poor self care).

I am not at my best when I am not in the present moment, and letting my thoughts run wild, in the past or in worry of the future.  How can I share what is my gift to the world when I am not at my best? What are the things I need to consider to be at my best?  What are your gifts?  Who are you when you are at your best? Make a list now.

I have had times recently when I am not at my best due to self imposed responsibilities.  I really have to understand this and know that I place a lot of the pressure on myself. It has been a habit. My high expectations for how life should be supersede what is actually how life is for me and those around me.

I need to have a lens or filter by which to make my decisions and take my actions, and allow these filters to be the standard for my choices and actions.

What do I use as my filter? I am learning through trial and error that the pressure I place on myself to help make things the way I think they should be is a disadvantage. It can sometimes backfire on me. This pressure comes from my world view that others come first, which is important, but not at the detriment to my own self. I need a filter that gives me a way to set little boundaries around the actions that keep me at my best.

This is so important; as we learned in the film, The Secret, and with the law of attraction, like attracts like. If I am not at my peak form, what do I attract into my life? How do I attract what is the best? I will need to be at my best. What are the ways you and I can make the choice to be at our best?

Make a list of what you need to have in place to be at your very best.

Those are powerful thoughts to ponder!

Until next week,
Lorraine

This entry was posted by Lorraine Calhoun on March 5th, 2007 under Mid-Life with keywords .

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