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Take time to run your chaos or your chaos will run you

Toward the end of last year, I have to admit, was on the lam.

I was on the run.

I was in the wind!!!

Well that is what I like to tell myself as it sounds totally badass and it sounds far better than plain old disorganised!!!  But what was a reality, unbeknownst to me as I wasn’t paying attention, was that I was flagrantly and blatantly ignoring (from their perspective) the tax department

Gasp

Shock

Draw in breath now!

The audacity of it hey?  How very dare I! But to be honest, and this is the crazy part, is that I was just too busy creating my art and magic in the world to respond (actually even read) their increasingly demanding emails.

Seriously, I just don’t have time for that, so I tell myself.  Really it is just that I don’t want to HAVE to make time for that, I just don’t want to.  So yes, this is the tantrumming, three year old part of myself that says

But it's‘boring’

Do I have to?

 If I ignore it, then will it go away?

Well obviously the answer is no, and so what I finally read my emails thinking, gee I keep getting messages to check my emails maybe it’s important, only to realise I was about to be referred on to the debt collectors!!

Oopss!!

A bit of oversight one might think.

Now with my debt promptly paid, I can come back out of hiding and review what happened there, and basically it comes down to the question:

Are you making space and room for your art and magic AND taking care of the chaos of your day to day life?

For me this was a definite NO and this obviously needs to be reviewed otherwise I might very well be writing this from the slammer for tax evasion (sorry I was wielding my art and magic into the world your honour, sure hun, clink!!!).

Anyhoo, this does bring up the question of what to do with all the boring but essential stuff that is part of life, the have to’s that are a FACT ( albeit an unwelcome one), the chaos that needs to be managed otherwise it does come to rule you.  When it comes to the non-negotiables it comes down to two options:

Change your situation

OR

Change your attitude

So in this case I could either suck it up and just do it, knowing that this is what ALLOWS me the freedom to do what I want to do in the world (waa waa waa, first world problem, now just do it please madam)

OR

I could outsource – employ someone to do this for me, someone who’s magic IS to organise the unorganisable, someone who loves numbers and keeping the books all balancing and tidy.  Not my strength but I know there are people who just feel that this is the shiz and would eat up the opportunity to whip me into shape.

Obviously there is no getting around this, so these are the two options.

I COULD choose to get all sad and shameful about how crap I am at that stuff, how I SHOULD be more organised, how will I ever get anywhere when I can’t even do something as simple as pay my tax (or read an email) but I have ACCEPTED that this is not my strength, that there is EVERYTHING I would rather do than to sit down and make sure I am legit, and yet I also like to be on the right side of the law and certainly don’t like the idea of running away from the po po!!

The other MAJOR MOTIVATOR is that I just know that on a whole other level, that I cannot grow my business and life in the way that I want until this gets a bit more streamlined.  I need systems in place that support the administrative side of life as, although I resist it, I just LOVE to feel organised around this stuff.

It is a bit like the housework – love living I a clean house, hate housework.  What are my options, well hire a cleaner of course!!

So the realisation that by NOT attending to this side of life, by ignoring the chaos to the point where it was ruling me, that this limits my GROWTH, and more specifically my growth towards FREEDOM

Well now you are speaking my language as freedom is my number one value in every aspect of life

Time

Financial

Communication

Lifestyle

Health

This is my number one motivator and really you can’t have total chaos and freedom; chaos is just the right kind of crazy making that feels like an insanity all of it’s own.

 So my invitation to you is to consider:

Where in your life is your chaos running you?

Where is your chaos draining your energy and creating the rumblings (or shouts) of it’s own kind of insanity?

What needs your attention and now gets to be problem solved so that you can FREE UP your time and energy to work your magic in the world?

Simple, no complaining, just do it and free yourself up to focus on what REALLY matters to you, which can only happen when the ‘back-end’ is running smoothly!

From a very practical sense, always remember that Bodhi starts with you

Toni-Anne

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