Day Twenty-four

My latest task was to achieve balance between the things I feel I ought to be doing and the things that are truly beneficial to me. Really not easy at all, especially considering I now have responsibility for another person's wages.

But: again, I need to learn that the world won't fall apart if I do an hour's less work. If the worst happened, I know that the skills I've taught me employees, and given them the opportunity to learn, will mean that they can earn more in their next jobs, and I'm sure they'll get new jobs pretty quick if things do really go down the pan.

SO: seeing that my life does lack balance, and admitting to myself that sorting this out isn't going to happen straight away, I concentrated hard on writing a list of things that I'd like to change.

Things I am doing too much of:

• Seeing the same people over and over
• Checking my email / reading email newsletters
• Japanese pencil puzzles
• Putting too much effort in at work on low-return activities
• Watching TV without doing the ironing at the same time (couch potato!)

Things I am doing too little of:

• Laughing
• Praying / God time
• Making new friends / seeing rare friends
• Going to parties
• Exercise
• Seeing my bro and sis
• Buying good clothes that suit me
• Listening to people who mean a lot to me about what they feel and recognising how I can help them (eg through acts of love, gifts, recommendations etc)

I also wrote a further list of how I am going to address all this stuff, but time runs thin in order to transcribe it (and I am sure you can work out for yourself how I am going to address a lot of these problems - the solutions are fairly obvious really).

All good. If the No Diet Diet means I laugh more and go to more parties - hey! This thing rocks.