What is on your plate?

What is on your plate? The trick to living a happy life is to make sure your plate is well balanced. Does it all fit on,  is there space around the edges for personal time? Or is your plate over flowing with no space to cut your meat? Visualise your life on a plate, see where things fit in? Is it over crowded? Could you do with a second plate? Well not all of us are lucky enough to have this option the trick is learning how to handle what is served to you. Do not accept too much at once, learn how to say “No!” you can always go for second helpings later. We often try to please every one and this is seldom possible. Learn to take life in bite size chunks, no point in stuffing it all in at once, you will lose out on the taste of those precious moments and end up with a sore stomach.  If you find you have too much on your plate, delegate to those who might be able to help you, never be afraid to pass on the things you can not handle to some one who could do it and perhaps even enjoy doing it for you. Think of how you feel when you know you are needed and pass this privilege on. Be aware of what you are adding to your plate, take on only the things you know you are capable of and do not over load yourself. Add variety as this will bring you joy and energy, if there is something on some one elses plate that you might enjoy offer to help them with it, you might even make an exchange, say “I can help you with that if you can help me with this.” Remember we don’t all like the same things and finding a friend who likes the salty when you prefer the sweet is always an added bonus. A well balanced plate of life should allow for lots of colour, try to balance work life and personal life. Make space for the things you enjoy as well as the things you have to do. Try not to procrastinate, tackle the things that come to you as they come. Putting important things to one side only makes them go cold and stale and then when you need to do them they can be very stressful. This week let us start by drawing our plate of life, and seeing where everything fits in, what has priority and what should be left out, what might you like to add to your plate? The key to the plate of life is everything in moderation,  savor the moments,  you can only eat them once…. Let's Live Ready to take the next step Click here