This summer:
The kids are home from school.
We are finally doing some much needed home repairs.
Family is visiting from out of town.
We’re doing a lot of travel.
There are so many fun family outings.
As summer has been approaching these are all reasons I have heard women give to justify postponing focusing on their desires. By desires I mean their Soul’s callings. Those things that their Soul has been guiding them to do, sometimes for quite some time. I say this without judgment, because I find that I’m often telling myself similar things.
For
example, rolling around in my head these last few weeks, I’ve been telling myself things like:
Once September gets here I’ll upgrade my meditation practice.
When the kids all go back to school I’ll really focus on entering my book in more book competitions.
Once I have more time to myself (aka the fall) I’ll reach out to some of those new speaking venues people suggested.
I’ll start exploring how to do the audio version of my book in September when things calm down.
Once the fall is here I’ll go back to my
regular acupuncture and other self/care appointments.
Phew! It is amazing how much that sense of “putting ourselves on hold” comes up in the summer.
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