What battles do you fight? Is there a particular battle that you continually fight? We all battle something, it's a part of life. Trying to figure out what the battles are and why we continually fight them is part of life as well. The best thing about the battles, in case you don't already know this, we can choose to fight them or try to come to terms with them and sign a peace treaty! Your choice, no one else but you can make this choice!
Okay...now on to where I am with the battles that I fight!
Battle of Myself
This is the hardest battle that I fight, that we all fight!
I need to be content with myself- this is what has happened....when I become content with myself, I begin to overflow my plate. It's like the song that never ends. I feel good for a while, then BAM.....I start piling things on, volunteering for this or that, making commitments I shouldn't make. Soon I have so much on my plate that I become paralyzed. I see all the stuff on my plate and I don't know which task to tackle so I tackle none of them. The next thing I do is stress because I have so much to do. Stressing leads to a busy mind, which leads to being reactive, which leads to not communicating my feelings, which leads to pressure building inside of me, which leads to having to letting off a lot of steam, which leads to this freak that lives inside of me and she is an ugly freak! When she comes out it is not a pretty thing to see----she resembles Linda Blair in the movie The Exorcist!
Stop stressing, live for today!--- I aspire to get to this point all the time. I do allow myself to go here, it is freeing when I can concentrate on this quote and truly allow myself to live in the moment.
Let Go and Let God---along the lines of stop stressing and live for today. I have given up a lot of my worries to God. Especially situations I have no control over. Allowing things to happen, instead of trying to intervene. I've learned to do this with my teenage son and it has worked out pretty well. I will delve in to that more when I get to where I am with the Battle of My Son.
Let other know how I feel and what I expect (communicate) ---I do okay with this piece. I can do better....goes along with the plate overflowing and not trying to rock the boat. The people pleaser in me.
If I was going to grade myself on how I'm doing with the Battle of Myself, I would give myself a C+. There is definitely room for improvement. The most important thing is I recognize what my battles are with myself, now I just have to work to make a peace treaty!
Do you fight the "Battle of Myself"? Think about the battles you fight with yourself. What can you do to stop these battles? Recognize the battles and come up with a plan to make a peace treaty with yourself!
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