Hustle and Bustle

** TO DO LIST: endless **

     Life gets crazy from time to time. From training in the gym, to practicing on the track in my car, all the way to balancing "family and friend" time, life can sometimes slowly begin to tighten it's fist and punch an overwhelming substance of stress into life. The question is how to become a superhero at balancing life, but since I'm not a superhero, is all hope lost?! 
   This past week it started with a huge list of sponsors to contact for my racing, new suit designs to finish up because the deadline for the next race event is creeping up. On top of that I was cramming in a trip 5 hours from home (one way) to get a few sessions on the race track in, along with heaps of work in fields as I continue to help my parent's fertilizer business advance, not to mention keeping up on that social media. It began to dawn on me toward the end of the week that Easter was this Sunday and my parents and I had a Sunrise Service to host at my house in just a few days. - It's at these moments I think that I might be a bit obsessed with this obscure life I live, and that it may be a tad over-rated. Wouldn't life would be easier if I could just sit in an office from nine to five, Monday through Friday? - How am I going to fit prepping for this very important Sunday and achieve finishing the rest of my to do  list for this week?
   During prayer one night, it sunk in that this innumerable, and quite frankly, reoccurring suffocation of a plain "to do list" was a mere perception of life and a lack of activity balance. The thought of my schedule being easier if I worked a "normal" job, would at no time be normal due to my self application and "busy bee" work ethnic. It's not a matter of how much work racing, fertilizing, sponsor satisfaction, relationships, and day to day chores are, but rather that its that I CAN wedge this huge to do list into my life because of my very own nature. If I would work a nine to five job, I would in fact find someway to fill the space void of an overflowing schedule. I think the trick is to live the life you groomed yourself to hold, AND know when your accumulation of hustle and bustle is effecting your performance to finish your tasks - the acceptance of saying no because you've already said yes. 

Have a great week- Happy Monday!! 

Living by Faith,
Mianna