Imagine Yourself…Beautifully Balanced
- Lanee and Sandy
- May 13, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 21, 2024
BALANCE….
Ahhhhh! It’s that awesome but intangible thing that we keep trying to grasp. We want to have balanced lives, balanced bank accounts, diets, schedules, etc.
Maybe sometimes you feel like The Little Engine That Could. You keep saying to yourself, “I think I can, I think I can,” but balance is something that must be constantly readjusted and reestablished. Just when you think you’ve got your life in complete balance, something seems to pop up and disrupt it.
Perhaps we can make a few changes to the way we think and the way we live. Maybe we can say NO to some things that come our way and focus on saying YES to only the very best things. Maybe we can do things, eat things, buy things, watch things and engage with things on social media in moderation.
Let’s set aside a “Do Nothing” time to help decompress from the stresses of life. Let’s rethink and live out our purpose. Let’s remember that living life is a gift that doesn’t have to be perfectly balanced but can be full and beautifully balanced!
We want to add to the balance in your life, not throw you off balance, so we hope you can sit and listen to this episode whenever it’s convenient for You!
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Sandy Kovach [00:00:01]:
Life can throw a lot at you, but imagine if your life were different, better, not because of what's coming at you, but because of what's coming from you. Let's get there together. Join us and imagine yourself.
Lanée Blaise [00:00:14]:
Good day, bad day, medium day, whatever you're having today. We're just glad that you're listening. I'm Lanee.
Sandy Kovach [00:00:22]:
And this is Sandy. And, Lanae, what are we imagining today?
Lanée Blaise [00:00:26]:
Today, I want you to close your eyes, unless you're driving.
Sandy Kovach [00:00:30]:
Right.
Lanée Blaise [00:00:31]:
I want you to picture 2 gigantic scales that are beautifully balanced, and I want you to imagine yourself finding that balance in your very own life.
Sandy Kovach [00:00:47]:
That's a big ask.
Lanée Blaise [00:00:49]:
That's a big ask, but now you okay. So notice I didn't say perfectly balanced. Okay. I said beautifully balanced. I guess the question is, do you feel balanced? Is your life feeling balanced lately?
Sandy Kovach [00:01:03]:
If anybody said yes, I want to meet that person, and I want to tell I want to ask them what is your secret.
Lanée Blaise [00:01:10]:
What's the key? What's the secret? Because, Sandy, you and I talked about this even before we got here this morning. This has just been a rough week, and it's been a it's just unbalanced topsy-turvy. Lots. Lots. Lots.
Sandy Kovach [00:01:22]:
The reality is we are not alone, and it's interesting. I put up a question on Facebook not too long ago that said something to the effect of, you know that sinking feeling when it becomes obvious that there's no way you're gonna get everything done that you need to do. Like, you're hopeful. You're hopeful. You're hopeful. And then you're like, no. It's just not gonna work.
Lanée Blaise [00:01:41]:
It's not gonna happen.
Sandy Kovach [00:01:42]:
And I put that up, and I got comments like story of my life every day. And this is one an interesting thing. And he said, you'll never get it all done, so live freely in this moment and be complete in your incompleteness.
Lanée Blaise [00:01:55]:
That's a quote from a listener, or is that like a famous person quote?
Sandy Kovach [00:01:58]:
No. That was somebody just posted on my Facebook wall. Now he may have stolen it from someone, but I like
Lanée Blaise [00:02:03]:
I wanna hear it again.
Sandy Kovach [00:02:04]:
I like that one. So you'll never get it all done. So live freely in this moment and be complete in your incompleteness. I
Lanée Blaise [00:02:11]:
think
Sandy Kovach [00:02:11]:
the guy's name was Bobby
Lanée Blaise [00:02:13]:
I like Bobby. I like that perspective. Be complete in your incompleteness.
Sandy Kovach [00:02:17]:
Well, we're gonna have to settle on something here because the work life balance is well, whether it's work or life or sometimes just balancing everything that you do, whether you work at home or whether you are on the job and you're balancing with family, in all ages and stages of life. Now there are probably some points in your life things aren't as hectic. Right. And you're more cool.
Lanée Blaise [00:02:38]:
But those things like those are getting smaller and smaller and fewer and far between, at least for me personally and the people that I hang out with and talk to.
Sandy Kovach [00:02:46]:
No. I agree. And I think it's one of the reasons is because our work and our home life, they are merging because of technology, and we're never really off the clock. And everything I'm
Lanée Blaise [00:02:58]:
kind of thinking with the technology stuff that is meant to make things easier and quicker and more accessible kind of is having the opposite effect now and it's making it too easy to get it breaks into my personal life and personal time in a way that it just never did before, and that could be a bad thing.
Sandy Kovach [00:03:17]:
It could be a bad thing. It's meant for a good thing, and it can be if you manage it. But I don't know a lot of people who are able to do that effectively. So I guess what we need to talk about is just strategies that maybe we've heard other people talk about. We talk this out as we usually do and Yeah. And come out with something to help.
Lanée Blaise [00:03:37]:
At the beginning of our show, the our little intro part, it always says life throws a lot at you, so concentrate more on what's coming, not what's coming at us, but what's coming from us.
Sandy Kovach [00:03:48]:
Exactly.
Lanée Blaise [00:03:49]:
That's our whole philosophy here. We want to just make sure that in this case, balance is such an important part of life that we want to say before I just move on to the next thing and jump off, consider taking some time to get balanced and to have life go a little smoother. Take the gift of time. We all do get 24 hours. That's true. Do you mind if I do a little exercise with you? Sure. Yeah, absolutely. Okay.
Lanée Blaise [00:04:18]:
So I'm gonna do a brain stretcher. I'm gonna read something out loud and I want you to guess what it is that I'm referring to. Okay?
Sandy Kovach [00:04:28]:
Alright.
Lanée Blaise [00:04:28]:
But the answer is not a person. So you ready? Mhmm. Balance is critical and it is important to take time to accurately assess all areas that are overloaded. As one ages, there is an increase in weight due to the rough things that attach and never get cleansed, dislodged, or dealt with, usually because the rough things are in hard to reach places. You know what this is yet?
Sandy Kovach [00:04:58]:
Is it some kind of tool or mechanism? You said it wasn't a person. It sounds like one. Well, let let's let's keep weight. No. No.
Lanée Blaise [00:05:04]:
Let's get get yeah. That part about and weight as I increase in age. But let's let's let's keep listening. Okay. Lateral balance is crucial to safety, and ignoring it can be harmful or even fatal. Overloading will decrease efficiency, maneuverability, and will put undue pressure on the structure overall. Those in charge should be held responsible for taking an inventory and using proper formulas to check for overall balance. All of them are built to withstand occasional pressure, but what happens if an especially hard pressure were combined with a substantial imbalance? Something would probably break, or hidden damage to the structural integrity would cause an unexpected catastrophic failure at some future Yeah.
Lanée Blaise [00:05:58]:
I'm
Sandy Kovach [00:06:02]:
a give it to you now. Just go ahead and give it to you because this is a weird one.
Lanée Blaise [00:06:03]:
Yeah. I'm a give it to you now. Just go ahead and give it to you because this is a weird one. Many tend to underestimate the importance of proper balance, and we have designed this handbook from the 2016 Federal Aviation Administration to help keep your aircraft balanced and safe while in the air or on the ground.
Sandy Kovach [00:06:25]:
Oh my gosh. We're like aircraft in a way. Yes. Flying around all over the place. Yes. Can't land in the right place.
Lanée Blaise [00:06:32]:
Exact imbalanced and causing structural damage now or in the future if we don't do our proper formulas to keep balance.
Sandy Kovach [00:06:42]:
And no aircraft traffic controller is gonna be able to help us once
Lanée Blaise [00:06:44]:
we're ready. Get that. Yeah.
Sandy Kovach [00:06:46]:
Very interesting. So we're not taking care of ourselves well enough in the short, well, not just in the short term, in the short term and in the long term. Right? We have to kinda look at it, like, as we age, as we go along in life, doing little things to help ourselves, and in the short term, not to overpack our schedules.
Lanée Blaise [00:07:05]:
There you go. That's it right there. Initially, when we were talking about balance, my first thought was about, like, people who are spinning plates and you're trying to spin a plate over here, spin a plate over here and keep them all going or a house of cards and you're trying to keep it all balanced. But really, we have to keep our checkbooks balanced. We have to keep our lives balanced, our families balanced, our time management under control, our balanced diet, for health and food and our work versus play, our work life, our home life. It is crucial. And I just think this is important. And this is another one of those things.
Lanée Blaise [00:07:41]:
We all know it, but we don't all know how to get to the root of it. And I'm starting to think the root has to be because everybody seems to want the answer to be getting more time.
Sandy Kovach [00:07:54]:
But that's not gonna happen. No. You you wish it all the time, but
Lanée Blaise [00:07:58]:
But you gotta get your 24 hours.
Sandy Kovach [00:08:00]:
Yeah.
Lanée Blaise [00:08:00]:
So I almost wonder if it's one of those counterintuitive things where what if the key is actually doing it the opposite way and taking time away from all the crazy. Yeah. Instead of trying to push, push, push, and shove more things in, what if you took more things out?
Sandy Kovach [00:08:23]:
I think people would love to do that, but I'm gonna argue devil's advocate here and say, what am I gonna take out? How can I find that? No. Sometimes it's obvious. There are people who are over committed. But there are other occasions where it's just a matter of especially if you're running your family around and you've got your work stuff and you got this and you got that and the other thing. How do we find that little slice that we're gonna need to take out?
Lanée Blaise [00:08:48]:
I think even when you said that part about running our family members around now I definitely understand work and some of us have teenagers and they've got to get to their jobs and things like that. But I think some of the activities that we might have either our kids in or that we might over commit to ourselves and agree to do, we might just need to say I'm sorry but I'm no longer able to do this or don't sign the kids up for any extra activities, maybe one activity per child at a time.
Sandy Kovach [00:09:19]:
Limiting ourselves and limiting our family is a key because the stress level starts you mentioned teenagers, like high school students where if they're or, like, when my son was, he just recently graduated and he had band and he had theater, and people have you know, they're getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to do like, your son swims. Right? I would imagine.
Lanée Blaise [00:09:41]:
Yeah. And the good part is that he does the only one thing at a time. He when he's doing swimming, and as soon as that season is over of swimming, then he does baseball, but he doesn't do anything overlapping at the same
Sandy Kovach [00:09:53]:
time. But then you think about then they have other studies. I guess my point is it starts coming at you early.
Lanée Blaise [00:09:59]:
It does. Oh, and especially in this society, which Lanee again is the root of the problem being told by society and by ourselves, you are not enough. You must do more. Strive more, strive harder because you are not enough.
Sandy Kovach [00:10:17]:
And, you know, you gotta get your service hours in, you know, you gotta volunteer and you gotta do this and you gotta do that, which is all good stuff. Right?
Lanée Blaise [00:10:24]:
Yeah. But maybe you don't have to do all that good stuff. Maybe you don't in this season of your life have to do the service. Maybe you wait until a different period when you have more bandwidth, more space for it.
Sandy Kovach [00:10:36]:
Yeah. But is it oh gosh. When does that come? We look forward to retirement. Yes. But even retired people a lot of you know, they commit to volunteering. And it's just I always think of this time, this nirvana that's gonna occur when I've got everything under control and everything checked off, and I know exactly what I'm doing. And it just
Lanée Blaise [00:10:57]:
but see that's where we have to go back to Bobby from Facebook where he said, you know, just go ahead and let these things be incomplete. It's okay. It really is okay. And also, I know there's a lot of people who say this, which I personally do not buy into this, but they say I'll sleep when I'm dead. I can't do that. I have to sleep so that I can be effective and kind. I'm a really grumpy, terrible beast when I don't get sleep. Yeah.
Sandy Kovach [00:11:26]:
Well, I mean and there are studies after studies that talk about the importance of sleep on your health, your mental health, your, physical health.
Lanée Blaise [00:11:34]:
Right. It's about balance once again. Right?
Sandy Kovach [00:11:36]:
Taking care of, like, the Lanee. If you don't take care And
Lanée Blaise [00:11:39]:
maintain it. Please don't think that this is something new where we're just dealing with it in the 2000s. I was reading a Bible verse and it really hit me because of the way that it was worded at the end of it. And it was in the book of Mark, it said, He said to them, 'Come away by yourselves to a desolate quiet place and rest a while, because many of them were coming and going and they didn't even have the time to eat. Yeah. And then President Abe Lincoln, this one most people have heard the part about, you can please some of the people all of the time. You can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. That's back in, what are we talking, 18 sixties.
Lanée Blaise [00:12:24]:
Yeah. And they're dealing with trying to please so trying to please people and trying to make time. I think the answer is, again, that counterintuitive taking time away.
Sandy Kovach [00:12:34]:
So what you're saying is the people pleasing aspect needs to
Lanée Blaise [00:12:39]:
ratchet down.
Sandy Kovach [00:12:40]:
Saying no to certain things
Lanée Blaise [00:12:42]:
Yes. With no guilt.
Sandy Kovach [00:12:43]:
Priorities without the guilt.
Lanée Blaise [00:12:45]:
Without the guilt.
Sandy Kovach [00:12:46]:
Because you are gonna get asked to do things sometimes that you're not gonna be able to do. And a lot of this idea that I think we we have, like, an overinflated idea of how long something is gonna take. Right? Or underinflated. Lanee that would be the word. Oh, that'll just take me an hour. You know, you're not thinking, okay. It's gonna be 25 minutes to get there, and it's gonna be this. And and you just you're unrealistic, and you think you can squeeze things in.
Sandy Kovach [00:13:11]:
I'm always doing that. Like, that's why I think both you and I suffer from being late. Yes. Because, oh, one more thing. One more email. I'm just gonna answer this.
Lanée Blaise [00:13:18]:
I'm just
Sandy Kovach [00:13:18]:
gonna do this.
Lanée Blaise [00:13:19]:
I'm always 11 minutes late.
Sandy Kovach [00:13:21]:
11 minutes now?
Lanée Blaise [00:13:22]:
11 minutes now. Yeah. How do you like that? So if you're gonna meet me at lunch, go 11 minutes.
Sandy Kovach [00:13:27]:
11 Lanee, is that normal time or is that Linae time? Because Linae time is 11 minutes late. And, actually, I hadn't noticed that because I don't judge that because I am constantly late myself.
Lanée Blaise [00:13:38]:
Thank you.
Sandy Kovach [00:13:39]:
Sometimes we do manage. When we have to be on time, we do manage. Have you noticed that? Like, if there's a hard time
Lanée Blaise [00:13:45]:
Ex where there's gonna be you know, And remember, many times some of this can be alleviated before you say yes to something or someone. Maybe it'd be better if you say, Let me check my schedule. I'll get back with you. I'm not sure about if I'm going to say yes or no. And then you can even take the time to reflect, to look at your schedule, to be realistic with yourself, and decide, is this going to be something that's going to disrupt the balance of my personal life or my home life or my work life and then it wasn't even necessary to do it. And you perhaps were only doing it because of, like you said, some sense of that I must get in service hours and I must again, the society, I must do better, be better, live harder, work harder, be fiercer. It it's just too much.
Sandy Kovach [00:14:41]:
And then there is that pressure on social media. Right. People are always putting their highlight reel on social media, doing this and doing that. So we feel this obligation. I actually saw this story. Maybe you saw it recently that people are posting, and there's a service that will Photoshop you, I guess, in a very convincing way onto vacation destinations. What? Like in Paris or Jamaica. So you didn't have time to go on vacation or money or whatever.
Sandy Kovach [00:15:09]:
No. I'm serious. Oh my gosh. So because of social media pressure Oh my gosh. People are doing that. They want to show the world that they have a cool vacation.
Lanée Blaise [00:15:18]:
That's the most crazy thing I've heard all month.
Sandy Kovach [00:15:22]:
It's the whole social media influencer thing. People feel the need to blow themselves up, and then there are some jobs where probably you want to have a presence, but that's not you. There's too much. That is the pressure social media has brought
Lanée Blaise [00:15:36]:
Yes.
Sandy Kovach [00:15:37]:
To society. And it's also a bandwidth sucker, which you talked about people not having a bandwidth. That's another thing that makes you feel out of balance is because your screen time I mean, I swear I see spend so much time in front of a screen, whether it's my phone or my computer, that I see literal images and, like, things in my dreams. Twitter feed comes rolling
Lanée Blaise [00:15:59]:
out of these. Yeah.
Sandy Kovach [00:16:00]:
It's like, no. Come on. Really?
Lanée Blaise [00:16:01]:
It's too much. Yeah. It's overloaded. And I don't know the answer to that on how to disconnect because as we said before, technology is trying to make things easier for you and more accessible. In many jobs, you can't even function without being connected into these social media and technology and screen situations, but I just feel that it's taking it's drifting us further and further away from our balance and what we're really supposed to be doing. It's not like I just want us to totally ditch everything, but I do think that we are crafted for a specific purpose or for specific purposes and we don't want to miss out on that because we're just all over the place. I was even thinking about how do you balance dreaming and doing? And I started to think, do people even have time to dream anymore?
Sandy Kovach [00:16:57]:
No. They're so worried about the next thing on their list.
Lanée Blaise [00:17:00]:
Yes. And sometimes how about sometimes giving yourself a little time and a little grace to do nothing? Just absolutely nothing. Not looking on your phone and stuff either. Not even watching TV. Doing nothing will finally give you the opportunity to be receptive to either what God is trying to whisper to you, how to run your life, how to balance your life, so that you can even hear the dreams that can come from you. 5 minutes?
Sandy Kovach [00:17:29]:
I think people can take 5 minutes. I think we can all find 5 minutes, can we?
Lanée Blaise [00:17:32]:
I hope so. I believe, and it's it may be a daunting task. There have been times in my life I know this is kind of a weird tangent, but I had a cat. I love my cat Mimi for 15 years. But in the earlier years when I I'd had the cat first. When I got pregnant with my first child, everything was overwhelming. I could barely keep up with bills and the house and food and cooking and my husband was working and the baby cried a lot and the cat was over in the corner every day biting his wrist, until it began to bleed. So I don't know where I got the time, but I did get the time to take him to the vet and the vet did all the tests and I said, you know, is there some rash or something hurting his wrist? No.
Lanée Blaise [00:18:21]:
He's depressed because he's had zero attention. She said, you're going to have to at least spend 5 minutes a day just petting him or giving him attention. And do you know what I said to her? I don't have 5 minutes. That's just a terrible, but I found 5 minutes.
Sandy Kovach [00:18:39]:
Yeah. And the
Lanée Blaise [00:18:39]:
cat lived on to be happy and healthy and wonderful. 15 years old. But Yeah. At that moment, I felt so bombarded with life. I said, I don't even have 5 minutes for an animal that I love and care about. And don't we care about ourselves? You know? Yeah. Just 5 minutes. Hide hide in the bathroom.
Lanée Blaise [00:18:58]:
Hide in the closet.
Sandy Kovach [00:18:59]:
Get maybe get up a little bit early in the morning before your kids get up if that's a thing. Yeah.
Lanée Blaise [00:19:04]:
Get in your car, close the doors to your car, pretend like you're going somewhere, but don't really go anywhere. You're just sitting there.
Sandy Kovach [00:19:09]:
There you go.
Lanée Blaise [00:19:10]:
With the car not running.
Sandy Kovach [00:19:11]:
There you go.
Lanée Blaise [00:19:12]:
Give 5 minutes to just decompress, balance yourself out, maintain like an aircraft.
Sandy Kovach [00:19:20]:
This quote I just found from former first lady Michelle Obama. She said we need to do a better job putting ourselves higher on our own to do list. Because I think,
Lanée Blaise [00:19:29]:
okay, so this is Lanee just me. I don't this one of those things is it is it just me? Every once in a while in my life, something happens. It's just a beautiful gift where I wake up with a beautiful mindset, and I kinda tackle my day, and time seems to be stretched. Like, I actually get way more done than I ever dreamed or imagined, way more productive, way more happy and confident, and the time seems like instead of having had 24 hours, it feels as if it's stretched. Has that ever happened to you or is this just
Sandy Kovach [00:20:06]:
No. There are certainly times where I would say that I am more productive than others.
Lanée Blaise [00:20:11]:
But nothing where you feel like, oh my gosh. I felt like I just had 10 hours when it was 2 hours just passed.
Sandy Kovach [00:20:17]:
No. I can't say that. But I can say sometimes it's easier to get things done than other times.
Lanée Blaise [00:20:21]:
Because every once in a while this happens and it always happens when I start out taking quiet time first. Okay. And really, I wanna say decompressing, but it's not just decompressing. It's really just trusting and opening my heart and opening my life to the day and asking God to help me through the day. It doesn't always happen like that, but there are multiple times where that has happened.
Sandy Kovach [00:20:47]:
So maybe that's it. Clearing your mind like that.
Lanée Blaise [00:20:50]:
Yes.
Sandy Kovach [00:20:50]:
And then that will probably help you when you set your schedule, whether you use an app or, an old school list. Yes. People have different ways of keeping time. And and time management is obviously a big key, but I don't want to make this all about that because sometimes the time management industry, it's it's just focusing on here's how you can do, like, new new time other things. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, it's only works, of course, if the system works for you and it fits your personality, and you're not just using it to add more things to your skin.
Lanée Blaise [00:21:20]:
Exactly. You're you're also bal balancing it again with discipline. Yeah. With the discipline to say no to things and cut some things out and make a change.
Sandy Kovach [00:21:30]:
Yeah. I mean, I think the organized people and people who manage their time are ultimately the most successful people in the world. It's not the most educated necessarily or the smartest person. I think it's the most organized people.
Lanée Blaise [00:21:42]:
I think there's a lot to that and happier too. Yeah. I just talked to a girlfriend of mine, Beth, who's who told me earlier this week, she said, Lanee, I'm really trying not to go rushing around trying to do everything, and be everything, and accomplish everything. She said that she's taking time to reflect and be happy with and good at the life that she has carved out for herself.
Sandy Kovach [00:22:07]:
And not always feeling like she has to show out
Lanée Blaise [00:22:11]:
More. More.
Sandy Kovach [00:22:11]:
She's not gonna go and buy that thing where on Instagram, she can post her
Lanée Blaise [00:22:15]:
vacation. She's not she's not gonna buy into that, man. Oh, no. And if she does, I'm She wouldn't do that. She's one of the people, like you said, who is organized and confident, and she's found her spot. She's found her sweet spot.
Sandy Kovach [00:22:31]:
It's organization. Yes. But it's also being content with where you are. And not to say that you don't wanna strive and do things and make dreams and Lanee. I mean, that's part of it, but you don't want to put so much pressure on yourself.
Lanée Blaise [00:22:45]:
Yes. And you said that it starts early. It's starting younger and younger.
Sandy Kovach [00:22:49]:
Oh my gosh. Yeah. We talked about high school, but it's even more and your son's not even in high school yet.
Lanée Blaise [00:22:53]:
He's in middle school. Yeah. So we have to be mindful of that for our children and for the next generation as we give ourselves that same grace and kind of retrain ourselves too.
Sandy Kovach [00:23:06]:
Because I can't imagine that kind of a pressure starting so early.
Lanée Blaise [00:23:10]:
No, and it didn't used to.
Sandy Kovach [00:23:11]:
No, it's it's it's more and more.
Lanée Blaise [00:23:14]:
Yeah and we don't want burnout, because that's the other part. When you don't have enough balance, it leads to burnout. And so then who wins then? And
Sandy Kovach [00:23:23]:
then yeah. Relationships. Here's another thing.
Lanée Blaise [00:23:26]:
Oh, yes. Relationships. Yeah.
Sandy Kovach [00:23:27]:
Okay. So it was a Harvard study. They said that the key to happiness is relationships, but it's not just any relationships. It's having real connections. And how are we going to have real connections if we don't know people, like, on a real basis? We we're not, like, out there trying to show off on social media.
Lanée Blaise [00:23:47]:
Exactly. A real tangible way
Sandy Kovach [00:23:49]:
knowing someone. Taking the time. Yes. Yeah. And how are we gonna have the time?
Lanée Blaise [00:23:54]:
I don't know, but we're we can we can make it. Because remember, at the end of all of this, Sandy, what are you and I really trying to do? We're just trying to push out their possibilities for people to see. It is possible to do better, to live better, to be happier, even if it's in small degrees. It is possible to say no to some things that, of course, they're a great idea. Serving others and we talked the whole time about loving thy neighbor and and serving others. But there are limits and there is balance to that as well. Our whole thing here, our whole shtick is to help anybody listening understand that sometimes you can tell yourself, it's alright. I don't have to buy into everything that the world is telling me to buy into.
Lanée Blaise [00:24:50]:
I can take a little time and listen to a little podcast and get a little grace and a little understanding from others who are dealing with the same things. Yeah. And balance is such an important part. Like I said, with the whole airplane thing, you do not want to crash and burn because of imbalance.
Sandy Kovach [00:25:11]:
And that's where the road is going. If we don't learn to take some time for ourself, we don't learn to take a breath even, or take 5 minutes. 5 minutes.
Lanée Blaise [00:25:22]:
Next time, think of us 5 minutes. Yeah. I'm guessing it might be takeaway time.
Sandy Kovach [00:25:29]:
Yeah. So because I have my notebook out and I'm ready for my takeaways.
Lanée Blaise [00:25:32]:
Okay. So you want me to be honest? Yeah. This was a crazy busy, hectic week for me and for you. I did not have time to prepare takeaways. Let's just say, everybody out there, I want you to take in everything that was said today and really try to grab hold of what hits you the most for your own personal life and your own personal well-being.
Sandy Kovach [00:26:05]:
And I think the 5 minute rule is a good takeaway.
Lanée Blaise [00:26:07]:
That's a good That's what
Lanée Blaise [00:26:09]:
Yeah. Take the 5 minute way and remember, be strategic. Get in the car, get in the closet, get in the bathroom, get somewhere, go in the attic, somewhere where they won't find you and take those 5 minutes to just come away by yourself and reflect and do nothing so that you can be open to finding out what you really need to be doing.
Sandy Kovach [00:26:31]:
And no cheating on the phone.
Lanée Blaise [00:26:33]:
No. In fact, leave the phone wherever you're not.
Sandy Kovach [00:26:36]:
Yeah. Exactly. How about that?
Lanée Blaise [00:26:37]:
Because it's only 5 minutes. Whoever needs you in that 5 minutes, I'm sure they can wait. Right?
Sandy Kovach [00:26:42]:
Exactly.
Lanée Blaise [00:26:43]:
Just for you to get yourself back together. So we want you to pull yourself back together, get yourself back on your horse, and ride in the direction you're supposed to ride.
Sandy Kovach [00:26:51]:
There you go.
Lanée Blaise [00:26:52]:
Let God whisper to you what he wants you to know.
Sandy Kovach [00:26:54]:
Alright.
Lanée Blaise [00:26:55]:
I do want to just end it with this. Imagine yourself beautifully balanced with enough time and grace to live this life with the joy that we were meant to live it with.
Sandy Kovach [00:27:12]:
Thanks for listening. Now, we'd like to hear from you. Got an idea for the show? Want to share your story or just say hello? Make sure you connect with us. You can do that at imagine yourself podcast.com and we'll talk to you again next time when we have something new to imagine.
