Are You Doing Too Much for Your Own Good?
I encountered an unread 1990 book on my shelf, Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much by Ann Wilson Schaef. I confess I’m one of them. Until recently I could almost always cram one more thing into my day.
Sometimes I over schedule, usually because of the conflicting timing of outside events I don’t want to miss. Sometimes it’s other things I can’t control like when tech support takes hours instead of minutes.
I’ve been rewarded with wonderful experiences in my life, and I like doing most of what I do. But sometimes I just can’t. At almost 86 my mind says yes but my body has other ideas.
When I’m ready to stop, I know what I need to do. The trigger for doing too much has been the memory of my mother’s voice from 70 years ago. I can still hear her saying “get up and do something” as I voraciously consumed yet another book.
Someday soon I’ll insert the memory of that scene into the three magic sentences I teach you to use in Letting It Go to remove the remaining energy from that refrain.
What about you? Do you do too much? Do you want to stop? What memory, fantasy, or belief do you need to give up so you can do so? You don’t need 365 days of meditation. Just get your copy of the book and learn how to use those sentences now. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is.
This post is a comment I wrote about a passage on Page 74 revised edition, Page 82 original of Letting It Go: Relieve Anxiety and Toxic Stress in Just a Few Minutes Using Only Words (Rapid Relief with Logosynthesis®). You can see the passage in the book. You can also see the excerpt here. This link will take you to Bublish.com, where I regularly publish comments on parts of this book. This is a site where authors share of their work. You can subscribe to my musings, there, as well as to the musings of many other authors. It’s a great place to learn about new books and I recommend that you visit.