Whether you know it or not, you know how to juggle. Now some of us are more clumsy than a one-legged giraffe trying to stand on marbles, but juggling is still in our nature.
Every person has a lot going on in their lives: work, home life, friends, bills, laundry, bat trapping, the list goes on and on. So we throw all these balls up in the air and pass them from hand to hand, trying to keep the whole rotation going.
But occasionally, we get unbalanced. One ball becomes heavier than the others and messes up our groove. Most of the time for me, it's work. I get bogged down with too much worry, too much time trying to accomplish too much. When that happens, I drop the ball on other aspects in my world and my home life suffers, I don't smile as much and I'm generally an old cranky man standing at his screen door yelling at young whippernsappers to get out of my yard.
So what can I do about it? Let go and move on.
Sure, work might be weighing on me but making my baby girl giggle will lighten the load. Then move on to the next juggling ball.
Learning to forget worry is the hardest lesson I've encountered since high school Trigonometry...but it's the most rewarding.
Holding onto concern and uncertainty is like throwing a bowling ball in your ping pong ball juggling act. Get rid of it and you won't get hit by that flaming bowling pin coming up next!
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