Life is NOT an emergency!

Sometimes it feels like it is - too much to do, a list so long I can't even read through it all.  Trying to keep up with the busy things that scream, demanding attention.  Fire fighting.  The urgent over the important.  It keeps you in the weeds instead of above the clouds.

I've been guilty of acting like life is an emergency lately - not enough time, too much to do.  I teach the Business of Fashion at Emily Griffith Technical College (among my - how many other jobs?).  I was relating some of my production issues with one of my factories in China to my students recently.  Some of them were wondering why I was having to deal with those problems since it was clearly an error made by the factory.  I answered, "because it is my company so ultimately my responsibility".  It's true.  It is my responsibility, and I do have too much for any one person to do.  So how do I act, and not react?  How do I stay above the clouds and not down in the weeds?

I tell my students, "It's not about what happens to you, it's not about what you are dealt, it's about how you respond to it."  So how do I respond to this urgent list of too much?

It's a choice.  "Life is dessert - too brief to hurry" says Ann Voskamp.

I'll fail again soon, maybe even later today.  But this morning, I choose to relish the dessert.  I choose to stay above the clouds.  I choose my attention to be focused on the important, rather than just the urgent.

Have a blessed day.