A lot is constantly happening, and it comes to be overwhelming at times. I do a really bad job in those instants of stopping and just taking a breath.<\/p>\n
Today was one of those days where I just needed to take a breath, and not let the world overwhelm me.<\/p>\n
In my ideal world, people do things for the right reasons. They do it right the first time. One takes pride in one’s work. I spent a lot of time working through what I thought was a simple problem last night trying to help someone who I don’t think holds my same beliefs on effort and integrity. And it drove me absolutely insane.<\/p>\n
I got pulled off of the cliff, but then dove right into another trap.<\/p>\n
This time what got to me was the that it felt as if the theory of doing the right thing was more important to understand than actually doing the right thing. I didn’t do a good job of processing the lack of grounding. I know the value of understanding how to do it is important, but sometimes I just want to do, and see what happens. My problem here is that I’m the perpetrator of \u00c2\u00a0the discussion, and the tangent. I do it to myself. And I need to stop, and just do.<\/p>\n
It was all just driving me crazy, and so I stopped and took a breath, and exhaled. Friday night is a good night to get the chance to just hit the pause button on life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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