What a weekend

I got to tell you that this weekend was very busy for my business. I worked over 20 hours on Saturday and on Sunday, which is the day I try to take off, I had to work about 10 hours.

In my work life I am part owner of a Pop-A-Lock business. We help people unlock their cars when they leave their keys inside and we also do roadside assistants. It was the roadside business that was popping this weekend (pun intended). With the cold weather everyone needed jump starts for their cars. I say this not to complain but to tell you that in spite of how busy it was, I was able to do my spiral meditation and it really helped calm me down and relieve the stress.

I am not going to tell you that I did not get stressed out at all because the fact is I was very stressed. I will tell you that by taking 5 - 10 minutes during the slow periods to connect to my breathing and the feelings inside (also know as "the wake up process") I was able to moderate the stress and be more effective.

I was very encouraged to be able to have some anchoring process that helped relieve some of the stress and kept me semi grounded while all hell was breaking loose. The stress comes from having to meet the times to get on-site to help the person. We try to be there in 30 - 40 minutes but when you have 15 calls come in in 10 minutes and your covering a big metro like we are then it becomes very difficult if not impossible to meet those expectations.

Have an aware day,