I don't know about others, but I seem to be at my best when I have too many things to do and too little time to do them. It's seems contradictory that I would perform better when I have less time to focus on attention and detail but, for some reason, I really do. I guess it comes down to time management. If I have too much, I don't use it wisely. I've never be good with leisure time. Even when I was home on maternity leave with my first child (which become permanent leave after a few months), I didn't feel right just sitting around watching videos from Netflix. Don't get me wrong -- I did sit and watch plenty of movies, but I was always struggling internally thinking about other things I should be doing. That's when I decided to do research about personal training. Two months after Madeleine was born, my study materials arrived and my DVD player was turned off.
These days, with two children under the age of three there isn't time to watch anything from Netflix -- I barely get a chance to turn on network television. But that's okay with me. I'm happy that I have an outlet like personal training to fill whatever remaining space I have in my days, and I also really like having this blog to document the never-ending dialogue going on in my head. The only downside to being busy is that the days fly by and I forget to appreciate all the little moments. I get so carried away on what I should be doing next that I'm not always fully present in what I'm doing at that moment. That's definitely something I need to work on. The name of my business is also an underlying theme in my life -- balance has to be implemented in every aspect of living. I'm great at juggling multiple things but unless I have balance and remember to take everything in stride, something will eventually be missed. I wouldn't want it to be my children's childhoods.
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