Diane Steffee/Blue MKE Blog Week 1
I am going to be honest with you, I am exhausted, feeling overwhelmed, somewhat lost, about all the different apps and locations of where to post this, download that, Incognito, folder for this, folder for that… and at the same time all these “requirements” are forcing me to be accountable.
It’s forcing me to create and build new habits or reinforce good habits I already have. Which is GOOD!
I AM excited for this course and need it at this time in my life. I am juggling many responsibilities; three careers (areas that I am passionate about) and a pending divorce. Should I be surprised? I need this course to help get me on track and able to REDUCE the amount of responsibilities I have, or rather have place on myself.
Already, reading Og Mandino’s book, The Greatest Salesman in the World, repeating the The Scroll Marked I, has set a fire within me. I had started to make changes in my life, to get back to the disciplined life I use to lead, before starting this course.
Now, this course is going to accelerate my efforts. I have been turning off the television, waking earlier, eating better, squeezing in exercise more (I was a daily runner – great habit developed from being a high school and collegiate distance runner) learning it’s okay to ask for help and beginning to feel like I am getting control back.
BUT, starting this course is showing me that I still have a long way to go.
I have the passion, the desire, the vision, but my blueprint is all wrong! Thanks to taking the Color Code assessment and learning more about myself through it, a light bulb lit up!!! LOL!. I have found some lines in the Scroll Marked I that resonates with me deeply;
“Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed.”
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, page 54-55.
“Today, I begin a new life. And I make a solemn oath, to myself that nothing will retard my new life’s growth”…I must not, I will not, break this habit of daily readings from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.”
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, page 55.
As tired and overwhelmed as I feel with taking on this task, this course, I know it is needed, and is WORTH IT! Let’s DO This!
Love this Diane, and I know all too well about having a brain with too many tabs open! Reminds me of something I heard once, the person said he was diagnosed with ADHD, ADD, Autism and OCD! and he always has too many tabs open on his computer! lol!!! I related as I also, always have umpteen tabs open on the computer so I can go between several while I’m working.
Diane, I love your energy and your get-it-done attitude! Blessings on all you have going and for drawing to you all you need! Cheering you on!
Welcome, Diane! You are in the right place at the right time. Remember to breathe and to take baby steps:)
Yea Diane! Lets DO this!