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Here are some thoughts on having balance in your life.

Yes… I know… I put off posting this. My fault.

I realize that I’ve been out of touch for a while. Things have been very busy! I’m sure that there are lots of people who run into this. I have a good friend who’s in the same boat, rushing around, trying to get things done, and I’ve been thinking about the topic.

It would be nice sometimes to sit down and have all the time in the world to get something done. Does it happen often? Not really. Does that mean nothing gets done? Sometimes… If you let it.

I have to admit. I don’t really feel like an expert on procrastination yet. There’s talking the talk, and there’s walking the walk after all. Sometimes, though, it only seems like nothing gets done because we feel so out of control. One thing gets planned, and another comes up. When it comes to life, though, flexibility is the name of the game. Something will ALWAYS come up. Because that’s not something you can control, if you wait for things to be perfect, nothing gets done.

So you have to steal the moment.

Right now, I’m at work. I’m the manager on duty, and the only salesperson at a furniture store. I had to come in early to take down the sale tags that ended yesterday and put up the new ones. In between tagging, I can be interrupted at any time by customers and literally get pulled from one thing to the next. In fact, this has described the last couple weeks in general.

As of late, that makes it much harder to sit down and write, and I’ve been letting it slide. I’ve been thinking about it, constantly though. It’s too easy to get into the mindset of “I HAVE to get things done” and feel overwhelmed with MORE responsibility than I already feel. Instead, I’ve been focusing on how I WANT to get this done. That’s the thing about motivation, after all. If you focus on avoiding feeling bad you get nowhere, but if you focus on getting what you want you’re going to make progress.

So in a perfect world, I’d be able to sit down at my desk at home, have a cup of coffee and… Aww hell. While we’re talking about fantasies, why not have a good glass of scotch and a cigar while sitting in an old-style study filled with leather-bound books in a chair by a cozy fireplace. I could sit there pondering, idly running my fingers through my beard, finding inspiration in the musings of great authors before me…

Which is all total BS ’cause I’m really not anywhere close to being that kind of guy. And if I hold myself to that kind of standard, I’ll never, ever get anything done.

In reality, I’m a guy who spends his days running in 10 different directions at once and just wants to relax at night. I also happen to have a handy little blackberry, so what am I to do? Simple. I’ll write a few minutes at a time as I get a break. At this point, it’s not about squeezing as much productivity into my day as possible. It’s about taking control of my day in as many little chunks as possible. Again, adaptability is key.

So here’s my challenge to you. You may feel overwhelmed by all the things you have to do. Some things may not get done in their entirety. But you can take control of things by getting the little things done. So my question to you is, as you go through your busy day not getting enough done, how can you steal the moment?

And now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to my job.

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