I got three jobs, Mon...

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I got three jobs Mon...

It is a running joke with me, as I joke around and tell everyone I am like a Jamaican "I got three jobs mon.."
( you have to say it with the Jamaican accent, it sounds better)
But it is true, I do. Yesterday I worked with a client all day in Miami, then ran to a focus group to make extra money, got stuck in traffic for over an hour to run and pick up my daughter from practice, to rushing home to cook dinner and before it was even done my hair client was at my door.

I finished her color, cut and blow dry and then did my own hair and cleaned my house. I dropped into bed around midnight to get up at 5 am to go to the gym and start it all over again.

Last week my daughter said to me "You love to work"  I replied "No, I have to work, I would love to sit on the beach all day and write, that's what I would love to do for work, but until that happens, this what I do to pay the bills"

Don't get me wrong I do love what I do, I have incredible clients who I adore but to tell the truth, this...writing this blog, writing the book, this is my passion, this is my purpose. While writing my book I would look up and realize I had been writing for eight , ten hours and it wouldn't feel like it, that is passion.

I am just doing everything else until this.... pays my bills full time.

I don't think about all I do,
I just do what I have to do, everyone in my family was hardworking, it's ingrained in me, it is who I am.

I sometimes work 10- 12 hour days, it is what it is....
I have me and my girls to support and I have no one to lean on, this is it, so I do what I have to do and don't think about it.

To me this is a cake walk because when I was married I did all of this
(yes, three jobs) plus take care of 200 snakes,12 sugar gliders, 2 monkeys, 10 ferrets, 100 lizards, 2 cats and a dog. I also every Saturday took care of the lawn, the sprinklers, the pool and cleaning and feeding of all animals cages besides all the normal cooking, laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, Pta, room mom, classes and sports for the girls and homework. Hell, this is a cake walk now!

But I do realize that there is a balance in life, I do play as hard as I work, I try not to work weekends and spend that time with my girls and my friends. I go places and do things that I truly enjoy, I love my free time and live life large. I know how to unwind and let go, I can just chill on the beach or ride my bike to let off steam.
I let the dishes sit if my girls want to spend time with me, if a friend wants to do something I am there.

I realized that life is too short and that one day on your death bed you won't be saying "Wow I wished I worked more" no you will be saying "I wished I spent more time with my loved one's, doing what I enjoyed to do" all the money in the world won't change the missed moments you lost.

So I try to make sure I get to be present in every moment, that I don't have regrets when that day comes.

So today my friends, remember that no matter how hard you have to work, take time to enjoy life,
to remember what the important things in life are and know life is way too short not to stop and smell the flowers.

"Be the change you want to see"
 
"And just when the caterpillar thought his life was over...he turned into a beautiful butterfly"

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