by Cassie Howard | Mar 10, 2017 | Blogging |
Have you ever felt so overwhelmed with something that you just wanted to shut out the world, hide under your covers and just completely disappear for awhile? That was me yesterday. As much as I DO love chaos – I love uncertainty – I love the game of figuring shit out – There are some things I definitely want to have under control. And I’ve been putting a bunch of them off, which has been adding a thick layer of stress to my life lately. I’ve even been having heart issues again, which is scary (I’ve had issues with heart palpatations for a lot of my life, but lately it’s been pains in my chest as well) and something I refuse to let continue. So yesterday I shut out the world. I crawled into bed after a full day of client calls, passed out by 5pm and just let myself ESCAPE. Because sometimes that’s necessary. I woke up 12 hours later feeling so much better, physically, but also, emotionally. I knew that I needed to get SERIOUS on the stuff that was making me feel so stressed before I have a fucking heart attack. It’s so easy to get consumed in the day-to-day It’s so easy to avoid the things that feel tedious, hard or scary It’s so easy to give in to the “eh, I’ll do it later” temptation And for a lot of things – For MOST things, actually – That’s okay. That works. You can do that. Because a lot of the stuff you do every day is probably not worth your time at all. But some stuff...