Hi Eduard, I definitely need a little more organization in my life.

Hi Tess, Getting motivated to work out isn’t easy. I know that I struggle too. Having a dog gets me out and moving around. 60 books that’s awesome. Great job.

Hi Sue, Moving is so hard. I try to avoid it as much as I can. Dancing with your sister sounds fun. At least you have a partner in crime to make moving a little more enjoyable.

Hi Evita, Saying goodbye is hard. It sounds like they made an impression on you. I bet you made that big of an impression on them. That’s memories you’ll never forget.

Hi Megan, I try to embrace my low motivational days, but it’s hard. I have so much I want to accomplish. I guess that’s all part of trying to work happy.

Hi Lance, Lousy project. Don’t you wish you had a magic button that would just blow it up. I like taking a different route to work every now and again too. Just to spice things up.

Hard: The project that just won’t go away.

Fun: Working with a group of middle school kids that my wife and I meet with every week. They are fun kids.

Beautiful: Taking a different route to work, way out on the backroad, and seeing deer just wandering around as I drove.

I am a fan of compassion, though, so as I read your post I thought, “Everything has peaks and valleys.” I think it applies to work rhythms, too, so perhaps just observe your lower energy moments, embrace them as being part of simply “what is,” and don’t resist too much. They’ll fall away on their own.

Have a super weekend!

Karl I have to say, your motivation is always so inspiring to read about. You have goals and dreams and you are working each day to make them a reality. Good for you! Just always remember to balance a healthy state of being in all that you do, and not push yourself too hard. At the end of any day it comes down to not how much you did, but how much you enjoyed yourself.

My hard was saying goodbye to a very special family for whom I have been tutoring two twin girls. They were all a blessing in my life and it was a pleasure to be able to help them, and saying bye was definitely heard.

Fun – Yoga! I started volunteering at a yoga studio and have been also enjoying lots of hot yoga in return – both the interaction with others and working out to this ancient form of exercise has been so much fun!

Beautiful – watching “Hope For Haiti Now” right now as I type this. It beats all other beautiful things I have experienced this week. It is the most beautiful expression of humanity uniting to help. I am speechless and overcome with emotion…

Ah yes, work-life balance and being organized are such lovely concepts in theory, but seem to be something of a challenge to stay on top of in practice. With all the different roles and projects you’re juggling, one or the other is bound to unravel from time to time. For myself, I’ve noticed that I start getting disorganized and cluttered when I’m feeling overwhelmed and just too tired to deal with organizing the stuff, so it piles up and I swear that the paper reproduces itself overnight–sort of like the “Trouble with tribbles” episode in Star Trek. (Yes, I’m THAT old that I remember those episodes! ). Y

Sorry to hear about your wrist. Unfortunately, a lot of computer work can result in repetitive strain injuries. In addition to using a wrist guard, anything you can do to reduce the amount stress and ensuing inflammatory response in the body would also be really helpful. Since I’m not a big fan of anti-inflammatory drugs, I lean more toward herbal remedies, nutrition and aromatherapy oils to help me out.

Onto the hard, fun, and beautiful…
Hard: I am currently surrounded by boxes and chaos and frantically doing the last of my packing before I move on Monday–and having a few mini-meltdowns at times because it feels as though I have too many life style changes and too many things going on all at once. My move also occurs the morning after a dance performance. Crazy timing, I know! Also a bit challenging is that I’ve had a few challenges with parts of the group choreography piece so I’m a bit worried as to how that’s going to work itself out by Sunday. Oh well, at least my solo routine will go well and I really love the piece of music I use for my solo (Jesse Cook’s “Leila” –kind of a middle eastern and Spanish fusion piece).
Fun: As much as all this sorting and packing is a royal pain, my sister has been a real angel with helping me and we’ve had some good giggles along the way. When things get crazy we just start doing silly dances to whatever music we’re listening to at the time.
Beautiful: Having such a great sister who is also a great friend, and just being grateful more generally for all the supportive and helpful people in my life. (An important point to remember when it feels like the unhelpful people are getting the upper hand.)

Wishing you and this great online community a fabulous weekend.

Hard

Unmotivated to exercise. I’ve been running since I was 27…that’s a lot of years. The last couple of weeks I’ve been slacking. I have hiked and am coming to terms with hiking more and running less. I love hiking as well and want to do the Grand Canyon in the fall.

Fun
Having coffee with two friends. I love Starbucks even though it’s a crazy price to pay for coffee. On the other hand I don’t see it any different than ordering a glass of wine or beer at dinner. I think I’m justifying fun now!

Watching my husbands business take off. I’ve put so much into his marketing and to get phone calls and appointments made from what I’ve done with him is so fun and celebratory. We’ve always worked well together even when we disagree we just come back together and push forward. To recover and leap forward at his age (58) is amazing. It shows you can succeed when you’re willing to do what it takes to succeed.

Beautiful.
I spoke to another group last week and sold 60 books. My goal was a boxful and there are 76 in a box. I was ecstatic because I know more jobs will come with those books sold. I had many people stop by and tell me how I’d given them hope. What can be more beautiful than that!

You know how they say a person who is disorganized on the outside is organized on the inside. I don’t know about you, but it pretty much applies to me. Then again, when you can’t even find your hand on the desk, it’s time to get more organized.

What’s been hard for me is trying to balance my part-time job as a freelance writer with writing blog posts in my blog. Sometimes I want to do more for one than the other and things get screwed up. I’m trying to work on balance.

The fun part of this entire writing process for me is seeing myself grow as a writer and learning from all the different writer’s out there in the world. It’s an awesome experience.

What’s beautiful in my life is just seeing the day go by. When you stop writing and take the time to ponder outside of the window, even if it’s like 30 seconds, you realize how wonderful nature changes before your eyes.