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This is a guest post by Kathy Oneto.1

Admit it, you wish a lot for yourself and your life. Not material possessions, per se, but to lead a full, rich, vibrant life. Nothing wrong with that!

Yet in today’s environment such ambition can easily turn into overwhelm. We get pulled to do it all, do it all now, and put our professional work above what’s important to us personally. The resulting incessant busyness can create feelings of frustration and impatience as we struggle to fit everything in. We make comments like, “I have to get so much done!,” “Ugh, I can never get to that,” or “I can’t wait for this busy time to be over.”

For example, you may be like one of my workshop participants who had a lot of interests and goals she wanted to pursue over the course of a year and realized in mapping it out, “My one-lane road map turned into a bumper-to-bumper, four-lane highway!”

You might be like a client who was managing professional demands with family life and could never get to her personal list of must-do’s unless she took days off work.

Or you might be like me, juggling multiple creative projects and constantly thinking that once you get through this launch or deadline, then you can focus on what really matters.

We often assume we have to trade-off leading a rich, ambitious life and feeling sustained and at ease. But what if there’s a way to pursue our ambitions without feeling so much tension and angst?...

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