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Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing about the different genres of crap that get in front of us seeing or living our truth – today’s video is about accepting reality.

This video is for you who have resentment, tons of stress, are tired or overwhelmed or overworked …

(yep, that’s me too!!)

If this video resonates with you, please share your thoughts, stories, feedback, or questions below!

(And … we’ll be covering more of this in the 18 Days to Live Your Truth program – more info coming soon.)

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I either had WAY to many things written down (impossible to all get done) or I forgot something or I’d leave my list at home and be lost all day.

And if I didn’t get it done – then the imperfection guilt set in!

Here’s the iPhone App techy solution for me that I’ve been using for a couple weeks, totally changing how I manage notes, tasks, and projects! –>  Awesome Note (aNote) (available on iPhone & iPad)

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An answer to the questions that have been keeping me sleepless for months.

Why am I so stressed? Why can’t I sleep? Why do I forget to eat? Why can’t I get rid of this cough? How come I am always behind? Why do I run out of energy by 5:30 pm every night? When will I be able to get a break? Why do I need so much freaking self care? Why am I not over my daughter’s illness? Why can’t I get all this stuff done?

The answer is …

I have designed an impossible life.

The deadlines I’ve set, the projects I’ve committed to, the to do’s that are necessary, the daily routines that must be completed, the roles I’ve chosen, the self-care that’s required to keep me above water – are fundamentally impossible to all fit in a 24 hour day.

Or even a 36 hour day. #asifthatwasanoption

Here’s the thing – time is our only finite resource.

And I have been acting as if I can uniquely create more time out of willpower and stubbornness and clarity of purpose.

As if I am not bound by the limitations of this temporal body currently inhabited by my soul.

As if I am not human.

So this week … I’m getting real.

About how much time it takes to take care of and spend time with Gracie. How much time it takes to tour schools and fill out applications and deal with the Kindergarden admissions process. How much time to sleep, eat, shower, workout, relax. To take buses and go shopping and clean the apartment.

How much time it takes to just maintain my life.

And after all that, I’m getting real about how much time I have left for business projects. To write, to create programs, to teach classes, to consult with clients, to brainstorm, to answer email, to be on social media, to keep the business afloat.

To change the world.

The ironic thing is that these temporal boundaries are a blessing.

Knowing the number of hours I have to change the world forces me to prioritize. To choose. To decide what’s the best use of those hours, which projects are most closely aligned to my purpose, what’s the most powerful way for me to infect the greatest number of people with Live Your Truth.

And this is one of the big lessons I’m bringing to my January livestream class, How to Create Your 2011 Business Plan from the Feminine.

We will be looking at how to change the world, how to live your purpose, how to create art and beauty and inspiration and life … inside the temporal boundaries of our 2011 reality.

So if this concept resonates with you … I’d love to see you there.

Until then … I’d love to hear from you below.

Do you overcommit? Is your to do list impossible? Do you have a completely unrealistic relationship with time? What tools have you used to effectively create a possible life?

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First thing in the morning – sometimes 4:30 AM, sometimes 7:15 AM – before any other work, before errands, sometimes even before coffee.

It may take 20 minutes. It may take 3 hours.

I may write 200 words. I may write 1500.

Now … I’m fascinated that I can actually do this.

Writing used to be painful. A chore. Something I would have to force myself to do.

I would spend hours brainstorming topics that my readers may be interested in, that might be good for SEO or lead to a upcoming promotion, that people needed to hear or I needed to say. A lot of thinking and analyzing and planning.

Writing was something I forced.

Not any longer.

Here’s what I do now.

Don’t Judge, Just Write.

This brilliant advice (from my BFF Allison Nazarian) means that I don’t decide if the post is going to get clicks or comments or be good for SEO or be a necessary step for my next launch. I don’t worry if it will suck or alienate people or cross over some line.

I just write.

And later I can decide if I will publish. Publishing is a separate decision, a business, ethical, and personal decision (and yes, I have two posts that have not and will likely never be published – because they are about other people).

In this moment, our job is not to think. Our job is only to write.

Write the Truth.

Forcing is impossible to do day after day. The only way I can write a blog post in less than an hour is to be completely in the flow, to have the words flow directly from my soul into my fingers, without being analyzed by my brain.

The only way to be in the flow is to speak the truth.

So instead of thinking about – what should I write today or what’s on my editorial calendar or what is timely in the news – I ask myself one of two prompts:

What’s the most true thing I could write today?

What do I not want to write about?

And either way I’m coming at it – I’m writing the truth. What’s inspired in that moment. This is more powerful than anything I could think my way into – because it’s coming from my feminine power – and because it flows out of me.

(The only difficulty or stress happens is when I resist.)

Write Every Day.

I write even on Saturday and Sunday. Even when I’m traveling or in a conference. Even when it’s hot or I don’t feel good or I am really really really! not in the mood to write.

Every. Day. No. Matter. What.

Sometimes what I write is kind of crappy. Or it’s unfinished, just the first 1/3 of a blog post. Or I write in my journal instead of my laptop. Or instead of writing in bed I write on a bus or in a plane or at the airport or in the hotel bed or at the coffee shop or in the mall food court or sitting on a bench at the pier or curled up under a tree at golden gate park.

What’s important is – no excuses. No rationalizations. No “just taking one day off.”

No compromise.

(And yes, the compromise is not about my business or about my goals or about you. It’s much more profound. It would be compromising on myself. On my truth.)

So that’s my truth today.

Even though laundry is piled up on this bed, even though my daughter may wake up at any moment, even though I have a zillion emails and dishes and bags of recycling, even though I had no idea what this post would be about when I put fingers to keyboard.

Regardless of anything … I’m here. In this moment.

And I’m writing.

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