The busier I get, the more tempted I am to steal time from other priorities.
I’ve noticed that I’ve been eating time away from my lunch breaks…
I’ve been staying later into the evenings, pulling extra minutes from my editing, reading, sleeping time…
I’ve even noticed that my thinking is more and more work oriented—most noticeably when I sit down to write… I end up circling work thoughts for longer than usual before I’m able to deviate into other trains of thought.
For some, this is how it goes. And work continues to creep further and further into everyday life and steal more and more from everything else—you know, the things that keep you balanced.
But as the old adage goes, we meditate when we’re free… and when we’re busy, we should meditate twice as long.
Resist the urge to steal time from other priorities. Fight for balance. Too much work and not enough play, remember, isn’t even good for work anyway.