It's almost Christmas!
I have a poem I wrote this morning. Not intending to be negative-but to be real about how I am feeling these days. I am having a hard time adjusting to some new thyroid medication I started taking 4 weeks ago. I switched from Synthroid to Armour Thyroid. I have also started my bioidentical hormone treatment. I am struggling with my state of mind while my body adjusts to these natural treatments.
I will post more blogs at a later date regarding my experience with bioindentical hormone treatment, as I have kept a journal about my progress, my struggles and my personal feelings through this whole ordeal. Life is a thrill ride...I just happened to be at the bottom of the roller coaster right now. I know everything will work out okay. It just helped for me to write this poem to express myself at this point.
December 23rd
It's December 23rd,
No stockings hung
No tree, no lights
Not even a one!
The arrival of Christmas
Has been out of mind
My heart is not in it
Nor my soul will It find.
Excitement I see in the eyes of my boy
My little girl is hoping for a new barbie toy
Yet I can't seem to make myself care or desire
Somewhere on my path
I've snuffed out my own fire.
My body is still, though I wished I could do
All the things I see other moms
Doing til through
Please help me get through one more passing hour
Im needing your help, my Heavenly Father!
~Wendy Schenck Benson
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Are you The Boss of Yourself?
As a seasoned entrepreneur, President & CEO of my 27 year old company -I know what it means to develop, survive and thrive in the business world. My company feels like my child. It is an extension of me. I nurtured and cared for it from infancy to adulthood. I look at my company as a living entity. Naturally, as mother wants the best for her child in all aspects so she/he may grow up and be happy & successful. I want the very best for my company so it may also live a long and prosperous life. By viewing my business this way, I have had to release some negative aspects that threaten the future life of this living entity. Specifically, I have had employees that aren't producing and are not making a positive impact towards growing the company. I call these the dead weights. I end up carrying these individuals, or in some cases the dead weight may be a piece of equipment taking up valuable space that could be a productive profit center. That extra energy used to "pull along" these dead weights immediately threatens the life of any company. I recently had to release 3 employees due to the shift in the economy. I naturally kept the ones that I knew would make my business survive and THRIVE.
The parallel I draw here is that YOU are YOUR own entity. You are YOUR own CEO of YOU and YOUR life. Why would you NOT release those things that make your company run inefficiently? WHY would you hang onto those dead weights that bring you down, drain your energy, and deflate your spirit? Take a proactive approach today and regain control of your business! Now’s the time to happily release dead weights, in all aspects-in the form clutter in your home or car, extra fat on your body, habits that are unhealthy, friends that continually drain you and make you feel bad, wasteful spending habits-such as eating out too much, or buying things on a whim because "it was a good deal". Releasing my dead weights on a regular basis requires me to evaluate myself. I do a "self check" to be sure that nothing is buggin me-and when I'm bugged-I get a huge leaky hole in my energy tank. The only thing I ever regret when I release my own personal dead weights...is that it TOOK me SO LONG! "Why didn't I do it sooner?" I ask myself! Like the story of the boy who kept slamming his finger in the cupboard. His mother kept hearing him say "ouch! Ouch!" And ran into the kitchen and asked "Why do you keep hurting yourself!" And the boy proclaimed "because it feels so much better when I stop." How many of us keep hurting ourselves by choosing to carry around our personal dead weights? STOP the MADNESS. Assume your position in your own company! YOU are, after all is said and done-The Boss of Yourself!
Be True to you,
Wendy
The parallel I draw here is that YOU are YOUR own entity. You are YOUR own CEO of YOU and YOUR life. Why would you NOT release those things that make your company run inefficiently? WHY would you hang onto those dead weights that bring you down, drain your energy, and deflate your spirit? Take a proactive approach today and regain control of your business! Now’s the time to happily release dead weights, in all aspects-in the form clutter in your home or car, extra fat on your body, habits that are unhealthy, friends that continually drain you and make you feel bad, wasteful spending habits-such as eating out too much, or buying things on a whim because "it was a good deal". Releasing my dead weights on a regular basis requires me to evaluate myself. I do a "self check" to be sure that nothing is buggin me-and when I'm bugged-I get a huge leaky hole in my energy tank. The only thing I ever regret when I release my own personal dead weights...is that it TOOK me SO LONG! "Why didn't I do it sooner?" I ask myself! Like the story of the boy who kept slamming his finger in the cupboard. His mother kept hearing him say "ouch! Ouch!" And ran into the kitchen and asked "Why do you keep hurting yourself!" And the boy proclaimed "because it feels so much better when I stop." How many of us keep hurting ourselves by choosing to carry around our personal dead weights? STOP the MADNESS. Assume your position in your own company! YOU are, after all is said and done-The Boss of Yourself!
Be True to you,
Wendy
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