Comments on: Taking a Year To Be

By: WorkLoveLife » Blog Archive » Screw Resolutions – Give Your Year a Theme

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:36:37 +0000

[...] one reason resolutions fail is because people aren’t committed to them in the first place. If you aren’t committed to your theme, then you won’t move on [...]

By: CI

CI — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:28:21 +0000

Holly, don’t get yourself killed. Seriously.

I thought that was interesting what you said about a body not being able to handle stress. Some people are built for daily stress, I think, and mine definitely isn’t. At the risk of sounding conceited, my body is like a high performance vehicle. It breaks down all the time, but when finely tuned and maintained, it goes really fast and is lots of fun to drive. What I’m definitely NOT built to do is work like a diesel truck. That type of daily load tears me apart.

By: Honey

Honey — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:26:46 +0000

I am realizing anew how this affects me...not so much me (I gave up the tenure-track hunt for something much lower-key), but the BF.

Every summer, his boss takes a one month vacation and leaves him to do EVERYTHING. Last year he got a kidney stone. This year it is binge drinking (yesterday I drove around until 12:30 in the morning trying to find him because he was blacked out and not answering his phone).

We are trying to find a way to transition him out of his current position while he is still sane and healthy, yet still be able to handle his debt. It's not all it's cracked up to be, the high-paced life.

Blog to come.

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:56:53 +0000

Holly, don't get yourself killed. Seriously.

I thought that was interesting what you said about a body not being able to handle stress. Some people are built for daily stress, I think, and mine definitely isn't. At the risk of sounding conceited, my body is like a high performance vehicle. It breaks down all the time, but when finely tuned and maintained, it goes really fast and is lots of fun to drive. What I'm definitely NOT built to do is work like a diesel truck. That type of daily load tears me apart.

By: jeffery

jeffery — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:59:39 +0000

read half asleep in frog pajamas by tom robbins. its good stuff.

By: Steve Errey - The Confidence Guy

Steve Errey - The Confidence Guy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:55:43 +0000

Bravo Holly.

I've been so sick recently that I haven't written a word on my blog in 6 weeks, and I initially thought I'd take just a week off from writing.

I haven't socialised in weeks because I'm so tired.

I'm also about to take a couple of weeks off from my freelancing as a Producer, because I have to stop.

It's tough to stop, it really is.

There are so many things I want to be getting on with, so many ideas that need flesh on their bones and projects that I want to get underway.

But I've been very deliberate in stripping away the labels - blogger, coach, mentor, business-owner, etc - stripping away all the false pressures that come from being all of those things and just being Steve.

I guess it's hard when you fit into the 'Gen-Y' label that you have to feel like you're keeping up with your peers or what you expect of yourself. Be sure to realise that all of those expectations have been put together by you, nobody else.

You owe it to yourself to be gentle to yourself, so reset those expectancies in line with that gentle, caring, nurturing side of you.

Get out of your head and into your body and soul.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:24:44 +0000

When you were little did you ever stare up at the sky and spin and spin til you couldn't spin your little body anymore. The world was so fun and fast and beautiful while you were spinning, but it completely messes with your head and when you stop you can't regain your balance quickly enough. Congratulations on learning to stop, the spinning is exhilarating and exhausting all at once.

By: Annabel

Annabel — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:43:10 +0000

What a great post, Holly. Just being is often much harder than being busy. Wishing you good health and a clear space for yourself.

By: Monicarolevans

Monicarolevans — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:41:33 +0000

I was just thinking about you! I'm glad to read that the surgery was a success and that you are taking your health as seriously as you have taken the rest of your life.

Good luck to you. Sometimes, love, it's not quantity that counts, but QUALITY. You don't need to do everything…pick those FEW things that will make you happiest, do those things and left everything else out. Mom (again) is right. Everything else will still be around when you are ready to pick them up again.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:39:25 +0000

As always thanks for sharing and I can relate, trust. And as someone whose mother and close mentor both floated the same idea, (taking it easy for the next year or so) I have to ask you what I asked myself when processing a year to just be...

Are you equating your value, your worthiness, your general kickassness to being busy? And what is your first gut reaction when you see empty calendar space? (Full disclosure: My answers: Sometimes. And "Squeee, all this free time I can fill with STUFF TO DO").

Overall, this transition from overbooked to overeasy has really been a lovely lesson in grace.

Rock on girl, rock on.