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• Empty your jar. A friend shared with me a philosophy on staying balanced based on the concept of a jar filled with water and rocks and it really resonated with me. The jar can be filled with some large rocks and lots of small rocks but too many and the water that is in the jar will overflow. The large rocks represent the things most important to you: family, health, whatever, the small rocks represent everything else. If you fill your jar with all small rocks there is no room for the larger more important rocks. And regardless of how you fill your jar, you need to periodically empty your jar to make room for new things to enter.
• Take the time to regenerate and allow for periods of stillness. Joni Mitchell is famous for taking breaks between albums and painting during these periods of rest. Here is what Feist has to say about the subject in regards to the timing between her own albums “ I read a National Geographic article about soil and modern farming,” she says. “The point is for food to grow, the point isn’t for it to grow all at once and never grow again. Soil does its job, but unless you let it rest it can’t regenerate its own minerals and do the same thing again. You just have to let it lay there under the sun, dry out, get rained on, and be still a little while.”
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