Time... again!

It seems that it always come back down to this for me... time, or the lack thereof. I feel caught in a web of too much to do and not enough time. So then I start cutting corners... I don't do my quiet time meditation in the morning... don't do my yoga stretches... don't do my morning pages... don't do my walks... don't get out into nature and guess what... I start to crash! I go into a slow nose-dive (sometimes fast), in which I begin to feel overwhelmed as if I have too much on my plate and there is just too much of everything and... ick... At some point, I begin to recognize that I have chopped out of my schedule all of those things that recharge my spiritual/emotiona/physical/mental batteries... and I begin to get on track. Wish I could do it sooner! It's like I need an alarm that signals when I am getting off track, derailed by everythign that I feel I need to do in my life... Of course... I do tend to ignore the warning signs and continue to scamper around in tiny circles, chasing my tail and complaining that everything is just too much... That sort of conversation, in and of itself, is an alarm for me!! Or should be... if I would only heed it's call. We all have different things that recharge us... and we ignore them at our peril. I'm reading a book right now called The Gift by Cecilia Ahern... about a guy who doesn't have enough time... Too busy with work and stuff to pay attention to his family. He makes choices all the time that favour work and not his family... I read that and think... silly bugger!! And yet, I am doing exactly the same thing and justifying it in all sorts of ways... Silly me! So, it's back on track... The one good thing is that I haven't started drinking coke again!!! Although the Christmas chocolate has mostly disappeared... sigh... But today is a new day... and a new year!! So... begin again...