So Life has spun a little bit out of control for me lately.  I’m a single  parent of 2, count them, 2 high school seniors.  Between all their activities, academics, and the all encompassing college application process, as well as all the things I have on my own plate, it’s safe to say that my life has spun completely and totally out of control.  I’m overwhelmed and I don’t know how to fix it.  Last night was particularly bad for a variety of reasons, and I started out my Monday wondering if I was even going to survive this year, and if I did, would it be worth it.

Well this morning, I had an a blog post to read in my google reader – actually, we won’t even begin to discuss the amount of blog posts because I didn’t check them at all over the weekend.  However, one post from Marc and Angel Hack Life – Practical Tips for Productive Living .  The post was called 12 Unconventional Habits of Highly Productive People.  I was going to just ignore it because I don’t want to be highly productive – at this point, I’ll settle for keeping my head above water.  But I realized that was STUPID, I should be productive, I should be proactive, and not reactive so I decided to give it a read.

I’m not going to lie, it’s a good article and everything in it made sense.  I don’t know if I can incorporate all the suggestions into my life, but I did find one suggestion that I know I MUST incorporate into my life.  Meditation.  The authors talked about meditation and provided a great link to another blog Meditation:  What it Actually is, Why It’s Awesome and How to Actually Get Started that gave some great tips about meditation, what it is, and what it isn’t.

This is something I can incorporate into my life.  More than that, I think it’s something I NEED to incorporate into my life.  Do I think it’s a cure all and fix all for all the stress in my life – absolutely not!  What I do think is that it is a powerful and amazing tool to help me COPE with all the stress in my life.  So I’m going to give it a whirl and see how it goes.  The way I see it, things can’t get any worse than they are, and in fact, it will make things a LOT better.