If you are anything like me you are a seeker and searcher. You always want a little more happiness, a little more connection, just a little more life.

I am reading a great book on creating called, "Making Your Creative Mark" and wouldn't you know the author Eric Maisel practically quotes me?!

He says, "often a creative person's lack of confidence plays itself out in boundary issues, that is, as the way she gives herself away to other people or as the way she enters into volatile relationships with them."

the way she gives herself away to other people

The way we give ourselves away

---this is a pertinent not great habit to start to recognize and call ourselves out on so we can change it.

A happy, satisfying life rarely involve feeling drained or empty. That's what giving without receiving creates.

We give too much when we don't know where we want to go and what we want to do. The lack of knowing ironically restricts our ability to get anywhere. What a mess!

I use this work sheet over and over.

(pdf version available through link: print and share freely-just acknowledge where you got it from!)

It helps me focus. I check in on Sunday night with the overall weeks projects and then break them down into

daily tasks that I centre and ground in first thing in the morning

(this sets my structure or boundaries for the day). Check ins are only five minutes unless I am starting a new big project!