Slow Down

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Oh, we need to slow down. Okay, I need to slow down

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now. If you've been listening to
the show for a while, you've heard

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already about the changes of my professional
life. How I went from being responsible

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for a single market or territory to
having my responsibilities expanded to four markets.

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So really the entire East Coast from
New England all the way down to Florida

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and into Louisiana is now my territory. Well, when I only had one

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market, that was easy for me. The job was easy. I had

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set things in place that made things
kind of automatic, so I was able

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to really focus on my spiritual life
and slow down and allow spirit to be

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with me, to be resent.
Because I wasn't constantly thinking of what else

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I have to do at work,
I was able to take it one step

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at a time. Now that I've
inherited three additional markets, I'm finding myself

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to move a lot faster, like
a lot faster, in order to keep

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up with the demands of the other
markets. Not just because there's other markets,

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but because those processes that I put
in place in the one market while

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they're not there any other three.
So as I try to wrap my head

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around how to bring everything into alignment
at the same time making sure that none

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of the balls that were left to
me are dropped and that I continue to

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push forward with progress in my responsibilities. I find that it's a lot.

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It's taking a lot of my energy, a lot of my time, a

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lot of my focus, and like
I mentioned before, when my mind can't

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process it all during the day,
well the only option that it has is

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to process it at night. And
so I'm having a hard time sleeping,

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like a really hard time sleeping because
of it, because my mind is constantly

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going, going, going, while
I'm sleeping. So then today, yes,

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as an every day, I start
meditating, and the meditation I get

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messages that I'm supposed to get,
And so I wanted to share those messages

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with you because you might find yourself
in the same place as me, where

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you're being asked to do a lot, and if you're like me and you

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like to succeed, what your natural
inclination is to push forward as hard as

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you can to conquer it to make
it happen. The problem with that is

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that sometimes parts of you that are
needed get left behind when you're focused on

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just the one, which is success. Our spiritual wellbeing needs Slowness needs focus,

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needs, calm, needs peace,
serenity, being in the now when

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you're rushing, rushing, rushing,
doing everything you need to do to get

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things done. Because professionally you have
to get things done, you tend to

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not be in the now, but
always in the future, right the what's

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next? What do I have to
do? What else do I have to

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figure out? And that's not really
conducive to spiritual growth, and it's hard,

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at least it's hard for me to
balance the two. So I have

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to keep reminding myself that I was
put in this position without being asked for

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it, that I have to accept
things as they are, so I can

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only do what I can do,
and I have to make sure that doesn't

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fringe on my health, in my
well being, my mental health, and

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in my family, most importantly,
my spiritual well being. And so by

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my recording this and sending this out
to you, it's my way of sending

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out an affirmation into the universe to
try to remind myself that I need to

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take the time for me. I
can only do what I can do,

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and I will diligently move forward as
I can. But I've got to keep

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myself centered. I've got to keep
myself in the now, and I can't

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be this anxious and distress about moving
forward with what I have to do at

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work all the time. Now.
It doesn't mean not do the work,

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because I do. I take pride
in it. I love what I do.

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But it means slowly and steadily moving
forward to put processes in place that

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will allow me to get back my
peace of mind. And I recommend that

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if you find yourself in the same
boat, you do the same thing.

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Focus on your well being, on
your calm, on your presence first,

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while you're putting things in place in
your professional life that allow you to maintain

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your piece. You can always you
should always put your well being first.

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And if you're trying to do too
much, well, that's a sign that

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you're trying to do too much