Life Is What Happens While You Are Making Other Plans...

Ever feel like your life is spinning out of control? How does that happen?

I get up every morning with a to-do-list and the best intentions and then...life happens! How do you do it all?

I consider myself an organized person (for the most part) and I know what has to be done...what needs to be done...and what I would like to do. But then the phone starts to ring...deliveries start to arrive...the kids call and need help or advice and before I know what happened the day is gone and so are my plans.

Everyone says I have to put myself on my list, and believe it or not, I am at the very top. Then I systematically let other people move me down the list until I fall off the bottom. I'm getting emotional bruises from the repeated falls.

It takes a toll on your psychological well being. I start to believe that everyone else is more important in the grand scheme than I am. But at the same time it makes me feel important to them. What a paradox...how can you feel important in the eyes of others and not feel you are important enough to satisfy your own needs?

Would the world fall apart if I were to say no...would they stop thinking so highly of me...would they learn to take care of things themselves and stop relying on me so much?

Hey, there might be something to this...the domino effect...if I say no, I have other plans (mine), then they would have to take care of their own needs...and I could take care of mine...and the world might shift in a whole new direction.

I wonder if you can plan that?