I wanted to share some insight I received yesterday while I was making my way to Yoga class. While walking, my mind was wondering through its usual thoughts of my life, “what I am doing today, where I Mm going tomorrow and what I am going to be doing in the future?” My work is something I have always made a priority in my life, yet since I had my baby I have had to put it in the background while taking care of the baby. To be honest, I found myself becoming increasingly stressed about my work because, as you may know, having a baby is a BIG responsibility which doesn't leave much time for anything else in the beginning. Although I love, adore and feel blessed to have Robbie and the task of loving and raising him, I still feel that I would like to accomplish much more in my life in terms of work and making a difference in the world.

So as I pondered these things I started feeling more and more anxious, “how will I get the time to do things? No never mind that, where do I start doing things? How can I contribute to helping people and the world? Will I ever be able to make a notable difference?” I was so caught up in my thoughts that missed the whole walk to the subway, I was so immersed in my thinking and when I finally came back to reality I realised I was in the subway station going down on the escalator and I had not been able to enjoy the path on the way there. As I was descending I looked to the bottom of the escalator where it reached the platform, I was pretty high up and on looking down, almost lost my bearings and started to feel a bit dizzy and sick (I am terrified of heights!). I then decided that instead of focusing on the destination, the bottom stair that I would just focus on the stair I was on at that moment. This made me feel much better, safer and less dizzy!

I realised that this was like a metaphor for life and reflected perfectly into the mental dilemma I was playing over and over in my mind on the way to the subway station. Instead of focusing on what I will end up doing, where I will end up and what will happen as a result in my future, I would just focus on what I had in hand at the moment and allow things to evolve day by day and allow myself to become immersed in the process instead of the destination, this way I will not become overwhelmed, confused and end up dizzy, losing balance and falling on my face! I felt this was a lovely piece of insight that could probably apply to almost everyone's life at one point or another because the majority of people are so goal and result oriented. So, my advice is this, instead of stressing about what you are going to end up doing or being in life, just enjoy the process of becoming and trust that in the end, you will end up exactly where you are meant to be, with the privilege of being able to enjoy the path along the way.