{"id":3880,"date":"2012-09-17T23:17:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2012-09-17T23:17:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T03:17:35","slug":"whirlwind-workaholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2012\/09\/whirlwind-workaholic.html","title":{"rendered":"Whirlwind Workaholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2012\/09\/tornado-169x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3881\" title=\"tornado-169x300\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2012\/09\/tornado-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are many days when I feel like this meteorological phenomenon,\u00a0swirling a million miles an hour, knocking about everything in my path, at a dizzying pace.\u00a0Whew!\u00a0 Although I have\u00a0eased back\u00a0considerably, there are\u00a0indeed\u00a0times\u00a0during which I rev\u00a0up the engine. When that happens, paradoxically I feel like I&#8217;m not going to do enough, be enough, have enough. I\u00a0was on the phone tonight with my cousin Jody\u00a0in\u00a0order to pick her\u00a0brain about the origin of this obnoxious thought. What she\u00a0came up with,\u00a0which\u00a0\u00a0was really no\u00a0surprise, was reminding me about my workaholic father who\u00a0held a full time job, did volunteer work, raised two children, kept up\u00a0with the house, and sequentially\u00a0took care of elderly mother and mother in-law. It wasn&#8217;t something I hadn&#8217;t\u00a0considered, believe me.<\/p>\n<p>I shared with her that in the past 72 hours, I had officiated at a wedding,\u00a0co-facilitated a workshop, did a radio interview\u00a0with\u00a0 Derek O&#8217;Neill, based in Ireland, found that two articles I had written, came out today, got a book in the\u00a0mail to which I had contributed a chapter, will be co-leading a service on Sunday at a Fall Festival, planning other\u00a0presentations for the next few\u00a0months, was asked to collaborate on another book project. Any sane person would say that I am\u00a0fairly accomplished and\u00a0yet&#8230;.there is that relentless voice that says &#8220;not enough, not enough, not enough.&#8221; I want to muzzle it. I teach this stuff because\u00a0I need to learn it,\u00a0naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Later calls to my friends Ondreah and Peggy offered solace as they suggested compassion for the slave driver aspects of myself who keeps the hamster wheel in motion or tornado spinning. She&#8217;s there for a purpose, although what it is, I can&#8217;t totally fathom. I can easily see that some of it is a joy-filled experience, what with all the creative juices that get flowing when I do this work, so it feeds the adrenalin rush of it all.<\/p>\n<p>I ask for guidance and grace to allow me to move through this time of second guessing and into a sense that I AM enough. Grateful for friends who remind me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many days when I feel like this meteorological phenomenon,\u00a0swirling a million miles an hour, knocking about everything in my path, at a dizzying pace.\u00a0Whew!\u00a0 Although I have\u00a0eased back\u00a0considerably, there are\u00a0indeed\u00a0times\u00a0during which I rev\u00a0up the engine. When that happens, paradoxically I feel like I&#8217;m not going to do enough, be enough, have enough. 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