I am amazed by people wanting to make my business theirs! I am allowed to have a private life. I am allowed to love who I want. But some people insist on inserting themselves and try to tell me what they think. Of course their opinions are based off their feelings and experience, not necessarily the reality. I am so thankful for your posts because they are helping me create boundaries. Let THEM be lonely and unhappy in their own spaces! Keep it out of mine!
Reading this was a good reminder of a topic I've been forced to deal with over and over again as I have navigated AFib - Atrial Fibrillation, an arrhythmia - for years. AFib is Ph.D level training in the mental game of discerning what is within my control and what isn't; it's never truly possible to discern what will trigger the heart into beating irregularly and, once it's in an uncomfortable episode of doing just that, what will bring it back to normal rhythm or how long the episode will last. Once you think you've mastered the possible triggers, there it goes - surprise!
I was awake all night last night in an episode and, while it was uncomfortable to be wired and tired, I was happy to notice that my intentional mental shift seemed to be working. I called a friend for support and this time wasn't complaining about the discomfort but just talked about the puzzle that is my life that has been impacted by these episodes. How to get through this? is my mantra these days.
I had to teach this morning on no sleep and managed to do it successfully. So who knows....I think the shift must be helping.
I am amazed by people wanting to make my business theirs! I am allowed to have a private life. I am allowed to love who I want. But some people insist on inserting themselves and try to tell me what they think. Of course their opinions are based off their feelings and experience, not necessarily the reality. I am so thankful for your posts because they are helping me create boundaries. Let THEM be lonely and unhappy in their own spaces! Keep it out of mine!
Reading this was a good reminder of a topic I've been forced to deal with over and over again as I have navigated AFib - Atrial Fibrillation, an arrhythmia - for years. AFib is Ph.D level training in the mental game of discerning what is within my control and what isn't; it's never truly possible to discern what will trigger the heart into beating irregularly and, once it's in an uncomfortable episode of doing just that, what will bring it back to normal rhythm or how long the episode will last. Once you think you've mastered the possible triggers, there it goes - surprise!
I was awake all night last night in an episode and, while it was uncomfortable to be wired and tired, I was happy to notice that my intentional mental shift seemed to be working. I called a friend for support and this time wasn't complaining about the discomfort but just talked about the puzzle that is my life that has been impacted by these episodes. How to get through this? is my mantra these days.
I had to teach this morning on no sleep and managed to do it successfully. So who knows....I think the shift must be helping.