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February 28, 2016

The Pie Chart!

Did you ever do one of those pie charts when you were at a leadership workshop where you had to divide up your day into the amount of time you spend on various activities? It would have looked something like this…

Then you would have to do a second chart showing how you would prefer your day to be broken up. For me there would always be a discrepancy between the reality of my pie chart and the ‘ideal’ chart. It also didn’t matter what my intention was coming out of the workshop my life never matched up to the ‘ideal’ chart!

During the month of February I have done two significant things in two very different spaces. I have been in Goa completing my yoga teacher training…

…and I have been at Sangam World Centre celebrating World Thinking Day with 750 members of the Bharat Scouts and Guides and a bunch of people from around the globe!

At times it felt like I was fully immersed in the yoga experience and doing a little bit of work and at other time fully working and doing a little bit of yoga…it was both the yin and the yang in February!
 
When life operates like this the time management pie chart just doesn’t work!!! There’s not enough hours in the day to balance all the things that ideally I’d like to achieve and the result of this for me is either exhaustion (trying to fit everything in) or guilt (because I didn’t). Neither of these are helpful so I decided it was time for a new perspective. 
 
Rather than looking at my life in 24 hour blocks and in black and white I decided to look at it in larger chunks of time – weeks, months, years! Over these longer periods of time did I and can I manage to achieve balance? I think so and my ‘pie chart’ will look more like this…
 
 
The next challenge (as pointed out by a very good friend of mine) is how to measure this without creating another unattainable set of expectations or rules? Awareness is the first step…let’s see what happens after that!
 
P.S. If you’d like to do my yoga class built around this topic that I created for my assessment during my yoga teacher training let me know. Skype yoga is always an option if you’re not in Pune! The peak pose of the class was…
Virabhadrasana III – Warrior III
 
…it’s all about the balance!
 
 


Perspective Part 2 – aka the power of the mind!
Making Space
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