How to love your life just as it is...

One of my somewhat new habits is quickly becoming my favorite. 

Every Sunday, I "step off the ride" so-to-speak. 

Monday – Saturday, I am hustling. 

Networking. 

Coaching. 

Consulting. 

Marketing. 

Studying new concepts. 

Experiencing the wild swing of emotions that comes with business ownership. 

Developing new exercises. 

Brainstorming new ideas. 

Chipping away at a massive goal that I set for myself this year.

So on Sundays, I shut it down for a few hours.

I step off the ride. 

I put my phone on airplane mode. 

TV off. 

And I focus on loving my life exactly as it is. 

It's so easy to get wrapped up on how great things will be once I accomplish _______ (insert goal) and forget how great my life is right now. 

I switch my brain to being in the moment and loving things as they are. 

What would be great about my life if it never got any "better" than it is right now? And I have a long list. 

I love my little pudding belly dog Chica and remember how much I missed having a dog the year after losing my last (shout out Buddy Lee). 

I love the close relationships that I have. 

I love the Ya-ya's. 

I love that Lexi (#yaya) calls me all the time for the most random things. I love that I don't have to hop on airplanes all the time anymore. 

I love the windows in my house and how bright and sunny it is. 

I love my clients and how lucky I am to be able to do this for a living. 

I love that I am healthy and lead a relatively simple life.

It isn't that my life is perfect by any stretch of the imagination. 

Life is always 50/50. 

If you asked me to give you a list of things that could be improved, fixed, or changed, I could give you a long list (relatively effortlessly.) 

I could easily point out that I have three swatches of gray paint on my kitchen wall from a few years ago. What happened to just basic gray? Seriously…why is a "true gray" so hard to find? 

I could focus on how it would be nice to move to a new neighborhood. 

How high health insurance rates are for business owners. 

How my dog really isn't all that into me and would much rather live with my Mom (kidding, not kidding). 

But instead, I spend 2-4 hours on Sundays, just focusing on what I love about my life. 

I love what I do, and I love to read, study, brainstorm, etc. so it's easy to talk myself out of downtime. 

But I need a break, and I need to shut down. 

The IM's, the texts, the phone calls, emails, DM's, Snapchats, Slack notifications, FB and Insta notifications, and so on. We all know the drill here. 

There is a lot of noise.

So I silence it all for a few hours, and it's fantastic. 

I end up cleaning, playing with my pup, and just doing whatever I feel like doing at the moment. 

And I look forward to it each week. 

If you feel like you're always in the rat race, try to step off the ride for a hot second and "love the life you're with."

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Machele Galloway is a Certified Life Coach through The Life Coach School. She's based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and specializes in helping her clients manage their time and their minds. She firmly believes that you can't manage one without managing the other. She virtually coaches women nationwide. If she isn't coaching clients, she is studying concepts and techniques. And if she isn't doing that, she's probably playing with a dog somewhere. - “Life is short. Play a little.” Click here to book your free consultation if you’re interested in working with me one-on-one.