Down Time

"What is without periods of rest will not endure. "
-Ovid

Learning to back off has been very difficult for me. If something does not make sense to me, then I want to attack it until it collapses. Usually when I do this, my mind ends up collapsing due to frustration and mental fatigue. As I have started to practice yoga consistently, I have learned that the fastest way to injury is to try and force an asana.

I think the same is true of everything else. The more that a person "tries" the harder something becomes. This is especially true with my experience in the accounting world. My biggest breakthroughs happened after I backed off on my effort level, and just watched what was happening. It seems that those "AH-HA!" moments will certainly appear when one creates the space for them to occur.

Lately, I have had to relearn the lesson that sometimes in order to achieve more, you have to do less. Naturally, I want to do it all. I want to get up at 4 AM to swim, hit the office by 7 AM, be out the door by 4 PM, do some yoga, then lift weights. What I have learned though is that if I set out to do ALL of that, I will do NONE of it. So, in order to achieve some goals, I have to lay the things that are most important, and focus on doing those.