Confession #4
10 February 2013
The Art of Plate Spinning
Yes. Indeed, there is an art to the spinning chaos. You must be so talented at spinning that when you are unable to spin due to sickness or fatigue, leisure or holiday your plates still spin.
While you are with family, at work or school you must dig so deep and deliver so hard that when you are not there your presence is known. Make every moment count when on task that you leave a spiritual inertia when you're not physically there. Make sense? Lets move on.
You can not just spin hard, you must spin carefully with intent. Take away the figure of speech for one second and lets just spin plates. Okay, not just any plate. We are now spinning grandma's china from the early 1800's. Yeah, that's a little different isn't it. Do you get what I am saying? You are not going to just spin hard. You are a little more focused now, a little more aware of just how careful you need to be. You stare at the plate a little closer and concerned and with steady yet firm hand you spin.
Okay, wake up! Back to our metaphorical plates: work, school, kids-- china. Get it? Good. Be careful-- plan ahead, work ahead. Stare at each plate in the face and tell it what to do. Be its boss. If you know you wont be there email ahead of time. If its an unexpected absence, email. Your plates are still spinning because while you were there you spun hard and diligently with purpose.
#spiritual inertia (Haha, I like it. Use it.)
Now, move along and spin!
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Confession #3
24 January 2013
Spin On!
I don't get away with plate spinning all the time. Just today I was called out by a professor--well, in a way. He emailed me today to let me know that I would only get a partial grade for a project that I turned in late. He also ended the note by saying, "I hope you respond by taking my class more seriously."
I take his class seriously-- I do. I only need one more upper division credit, signed up for a class that I could tell wasn't going to benefit me, dropped it and added his class instead because I believe that I will learn more from it. It's just that, well, I'm a plate spinner.
My dilema: do I confess to him that I am a plate spinner or hide my chaotic lifestyle. Do I tell him that I work 34 hours a week, spend 15 hours in class, have at least three projects per week, that I am the director of a new after school program, that I am raising four children, and work hard to keep a smile on my face and try not be one of those people that are too stressed so that I might keep a friend or two?
Nope. I have already decided to continue the course and move forward as if nothing happened. I will continue to live my plate spinning ways and hopefully he will never catch a glimpse of that side of me again.
Spin on!
24 January 2013
Spin On!
I don't get away with plate spinning all the time. Just today I was called out by a professor--well, in a way. He emailed me today to let me know that I would only get a partial grade for a project that I turned in late. He also ended the note by saying, "I hope you respond by taking my class more seriously."
I take his class seriously-- I do. I only need one more upper division credit, signed up for a class that I could tell wasn't going to benefit me, dropped it and added his class instead because I believe that I will learn more from it. It's just that, well, I'm a plate spinner.
My dilema: do I confess to him that I am a plate spinner or hide my chaotic lifestyle. Do I tell him that I work 34 hours a week, spend 15 hours in class, have at least three projects per week, that I am the director of a new after school program, that I am raising four children, and work hard to keep a smile on my face and try not be one of those people that are too stressed so that I might keep a friend or two?
Nope. I have already decided to continue the course and move forward as if nothing happened. I will continue to live my plate spinning ways and hopefully he will never catch a glimpse of that side of me again.
Spin on!
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Confession #2
17 January 2013
Opah!--Broken Plates
THE PLATES:
Children: Noah(18), Aidan(17), Olivia(15), and Gabe(11).
Work: GPA, ASC, and Snap Fitness.
School: SUU, comm major, grad school hopeful.
Home: Bills, meals, cleaning, repair, providing,etc.
I can not spin all of the plates at one time. My boss once quoted an article saying, "It is impossible to multitask." He went on explaining how it is humanly impossible to multitask and that when you think you are , you are really bouncing back and forth from many things, but not doing them all at the same time. I can not be everything to everyone. I can only do my best with the time given to me.
It is my responsibility to prioritize spinning my "plates". Sometimes I will let one almost fall before I get them spinning again for the sake of saving another. I have dropped some, some I have glued back together and started spinning again, and some I just keep spinning. That is key: to know which plates to keep spinning. Do I glue back together ones that have broken and start spinning them again? If I have let them fall, are they really worth my time? This is something I am going to meditate on because I have glued plates together and tried to spin them again. Is that efficient? I don't think so. Hmmm? With my load, I should shout "Opah!" after dropping a plate!
17 January 2013
Opah!--Broken Plates
THE PLATES:
Children: Noah(18), Aidan(17), Olivia(15), and Gabe(11).
Work: GPA, ASC, and Snap Fitness.
School: SUU, comm major, grad school hopeful.
Home: Bills, meals, cleaning, repair, providing,etc.
I can not spin all of the plates at one time. My boss once quoted an article saying, "It is impossible to multitask." He went on explaining how it is humanly impossible to multitask and that when you think you are , you are really bouncing back and forth from many things, but not doing them all at the same time. I can not be everything to everyone. I can only do my best with the time given to me.
It is my responsibility to prioritize spinning my "plates". Sometimes I will let one almost fall before I get them spinning again for the sake of saving another. I have dropped some, some I have glued back together and started spinning again, and some I just keep spinning. That is key: to know which plates to keep spinning. Do I glue back together ones that have broken and start spinning them again? If I have let them fall, are they really worth my time? This is something I am going to meditate on because I have glued plates together and tried to spin them again. Is that efficient? I don't think so. Hmmm? With my load, I should shout "Opah!" after dropping a plate!
Monday, January 14, 2013
Confession #1
14 January 2013
Once upon a week in June 2005, my husband of 12 years, whom I had four children with, betrayed the family and bullied us out of our home and we were left with nothing but a car and the clothes on our backs. In that same week my mom, my best friend, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Prior to this week in my life, I was a stay at home mom, running children to and fro, plate spinning, but enjoying life. In an instant I had become a Plate Spinner of a new sort.
My name is Krista, and I am a Plate Spinner.
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