Being Present

Friday, March 11, 2011
I haven't been very present lately.

This is a problem for me. I have a natural tendency to allow my professional obligations to overwhelm my personal and family obligations, and it's something I've worked hard to overcome, in order to maintain some level of balance in my life.

And here lately, like since the first of the year, I've not been doing a very good job.

Part of it is that I've been traveling far more than I'm used to. Currently my "I'm away from my office" time for the year is at 70% on a weekly basis, which is really crazy for someone who doesn't like to travel. Being forced to deal with the stress of travel takes an emotional toll on me, and when you add in the fact that all that time in airports, in airplanes, in cars, in training, leaves me little time for my regular work, it's a safe bet that someone is going to get the short end of the stick.

And of course, that someone is always the Smart Man, and my Hot Daughter, and my Hot Mom, and my other family and friends.

Now it's not like the people in my life are incapable of managing without daily interaction with me, or my daily attention (except Boogie, but that's a different matter). My family and friends are all a self-sufficient bunch. But when I am in town, and spending time with them, they deserve my undivided attention. They deserve for me to be present, regardless of what crisis du jour is currently brewing within my customer base and on my team.

And I haven't been.

So my goal for the immediate future is to fix that. My family and friends deserve no less from me.

1 comments:

Anne C. said...

<3 I love that you think about these things, my dear. <3