Today's Draw Classic*: Three of Cups from the Infinite Visions. Do you feel like your priorities are in order? Do you give proper attention to all the areas of your life that feed you? Or do you find yourself placing priority on things that don't fuel your heart?
The Three of Cups is about friendship, dancing, joyfulness, friendships and frivolity. It's a valuable reminder that life isn't always about work.
It's kind of sad that we'd need that kind of reminder, but I know I do. Too often I tend to put everything at a lower priority than work. So whatever leftover energy I have at the end of the day, I dole out to the other areas of life...family, friends, ourselves. Kind of screwed up when you think of it in those terms, huh?
Every once in a while, we need to assess our priorities and see where we stand, making changes along the way. And we need to do this consciously, because we get into "normal" routines. While those routines may be normal, though, are they sane? Do they make sense in the context of the life you WANT to live? And, if not, when will you set routines that make sense in that context?
Tonight I met a couple of ladies in their 70s. They have their set lives doing whatever they do, but every once in a while they leave the husbands and other responsibilities behind for what they call their "Thelma and Louise" trips. They hang out together all the time. They're best friends and live close to each other. They don't have to take trips together. But they take these weekends to nurture and honor this side of their lives that much more.
How many of us "simply can't" do a trip like that in order to make time for something that, when you really think about it, holds less value in your heart...or monopolizes your heart as though it's the only thing that matters? It's time to see how you portion up your energy. Work isn't a bad thing. But it's not the only thing. And every so often it doesn't hurt to check in and ask yourself why you really think you're here.
*Adapted from 10/20/11
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