I was chatting to a friend the other day and she asked me how I get to walk on the beach or do yoga all the time. She said she can barely sit down with a cup of tea let alone go for a long walk and it made her feel frustrated. It really got me thinking about the difference between our two lives. Her house is always beautiful and spotless, all the housework is done, dinner cooked every night and children home-schooled at the moment. She also is committed to making her business a priority in this trying time which keeps their family afloat. My house is always messy! Put 2 dogs and a 3 year old together and see what happens, so I often do the bare minimum to tidy it up, I leave the washing until its an absolute must do and share the load of cooking with my husband. It made me realize how different our priorities are and how we so often judge our lives based on someone else's priorities. My priority every day is to either go for a walk or do yoga, because if I don't it
I don't know about you but I find this whole 'detaching from the outcome' thing really really challenging! Being the personality type who likes to know everything is in my control makes it pretty hard to hand over big wishes to the Big U! The bigger the wishes, the harder I find it. But then, whenever I do eventually let go and detach from the outcome it always, always manifests! It is a practice I work on every single day of my life, because it just doesn't come naturally to me, but I know the more I do it the easier it will be. Whenever I've wanted something to happen, I get attached to it, and try to keep it within my control up to the point that it actually starts to create a bit of stress and anxiety, and at that point I realize what I'm doing and how much I don't enjoy that feeling, and that sparks me into handing the stress and control part over to the Universe. So recently I was reminded of the power of this little gift again. When my husband a