Finding Time

So, I have inspired several of my friends to start their own blogging adventures.  As I read their entries, two things come to mind:
a) Their writing is WAY better than mine!
b) How do they find the time to write?

Time.  One of the few things we wish would speed up, but also wish we had more of.  Crazy, huh?  I find it to be one of the biggest struggles in my everyday life.  By the time I've gotten my "need to do" bin almost empty, I'm overwhelmed by the overflowing "should do" and "want to do bins"...  And instead of doing one of the items in those bins, I usually end up doing nothing.

Nothing.  Let me digress for a minute and explain my nothingness.  I don't mean doing literally nothing, which is what I get to do while actively monitoring students during state testing.  No, that type of nothing would send me to the looney bin...and quickly!  The nothing that I end up resorting to is really just mindless something...napping, tv, messing with my phone, etc.

Balance.  Something I am NOT good at...whether we are speaking of bodily equilibrium, mental stability, or equal distribution.  I am becoming better about balancing work and play, and spending quality time with my friends...but I know at times I falter, and I let people down.  Lately, I have been doing a lot of self-reflection and re-prioritizing that I hope will help me with finding balance in my life.

I will end this with a powerful quote from H. Jackson Brown: You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.