Homeostasis--Entry 7

Wow, I can't believe how late I am on this journal entry!  I despise being late on work and things I need and even would like to do.  However, this past week couldn't have been helped.  I needed this past week to help me realize how to prioritize the things that are important to me in my life.

These past couple weeks I have been studying (pretty closely) the book, Mastery, by George Leonard.  This book is a lifesaver for me at this time.  I have so many goals, so many things I wish I could master, but I think I have taken on too much all at once and it has set me back into what he does state is homeostasis.  "Homeostasis works to keep things as they are even if they aren't very good." (page 110)  This right here reaffirms why things have happened to me that I would like to get done, but just fall backwards when I get into a rhythm and it dies.  I'm also lazy, and a procrastinator, but the procrastination is something I have considered that I have mastered (unless illness comes into play).  This chapter in his book about resolutions and how to keep them really has opened my eyes up to better prioritizing the things I need to do in my life.

Yes, I have goals.  I have lots of goals.

• I want to run a business of my own one day.
• I want to become a published author.
• I want to be able to play concert piano pieces with perfection and ease.
• I want to improve on my ballet skills.
• I want to learn to play the cello and violin.
• I want my kids to grow up happy, and to remember all the happier times of love and laughter in our home.
• I want to be financially independent.
• I want to tour Europe.

Some of these things seem like a bucket list of sorts, but that's how I see goals.  They are a bucket list.  They are my things I want to do and to master in my own way.  Guy Kawasaki said, "If you do what you love and you change the world, then you will be rich, but you shouldn't want to do it because you want to be rich."  I know a few of these things are things I do love doing.  I love ballet.  I love playing and practicing the piano.  I love to write.  I know I seem like I am all talk and do nothing.  I normally am that way.  However, I am constantly trying to figure out what I need to do to do these things with my husband's work schedule and with me being a mother and wife first.  I love everything that I accomplish, and I love having the support of my family through it all.

Mastery by George Leonard (link to Amazon)

Passion vs. Money by Guy Kawasaki video