Quiet Time is Down Time??

Quiet time is down time...and by down time I mean that time when your mind floats off to the place where you start to over think your life and sink into that Saturday afternoon slump where you want nothing more than to not take a shower, go back to bed and not wake up until Monday. Or maybe skip Monday. I mean I have to get up at 4am on Monday and no one wants to do that.

You see, during the week I have no time to over think my life. I'm not just talking about work. I'm too busy planning the next big charity event...or the next three big charity events all at once. I'm organizing baby showers, launching an Arbonne business and getting three things done that would take a normal person four hours to do in only three and a half hours...which still makes me a half an hour late to my fourth thing (sorry David!). There isn't even time to make dinner (thank you David!).

This weekend, I decided to "take it down a notch" - "lay low" - "chill for a minute" (did I just say chill?" Bad idea. I know. I couldn't help myself.) Nothing good comes from "chilling" or "laying low". I think our grandmothers were right when they said, "Idle hands are the devil's playground".

I refused to open my laptop this weekend. I hung out with my daughter, made dinner every night and we made virtually no plans (except for that trip to the Apple store where I lost my keys...like THAT never happens!). Don't get me wrong...I thoroughly enjoyed the time with my daughter. She's amazing. My friend Deirdre did pop in for dinner on Friday and slept over until Saturday (thanks for letting me sleep in). It was a GREAT weekend.

But now, it's Saturday night. I've got no plans and I've started to contemplate where my life is at and where it's going. I'm going to be 35 years old in August. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not with the man I'm going to grow old with (I'm working on that...I promise!). I still haven't finished school (yes, B, I'm working on that too!) and I still want to lose about a bazillion pounds (yes Deirdre, you've been very helpful).

I think I'll take the advice of my 15 year old going on 30 and NOT start any new projects to keep my mind off of the "less than perfect" parts of my life. I'll throw that same advice out there to some of my other over-achieving friends. Instead of avoiding, let's FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS. I'm starting off this Sunday with an eviction notice to the man I won't be spending the rest of my life with, registering for fall classes and a trip to the gym.

So maybe this "quiet time" wasn't so bad. Maybe what we all need is more quiet time? I think our grandmothers were wrong (oh come on, like they were right about EVERYTHING!). I think idle hands...or more accurately, idle minds are necessary for personal growth. We all need to refocus and adjust the compass of our lives every now and then. Of course, everything in moderation.

We'll have none of this nonsense next weekend...thankfully, this coming weekend is jam packed!!