juggling

I'm starting this new year with a lot of of accomplishments to feel good about. I've lost 30 pounds since I began my eating/activity changes in August. And I've done a lot of grant-writing, course development, and thinking about intellectual endeavors over the past few months, as well.

But I feel as though there are three juggling balls that I'm always trying to keep in the air...my physical well-being, my intellectual well-being, and my spiritual well-being. And no matter how much I try, I seem only able to to keep two of them moving at the same time--the third invevitably ends up on the floor.

For the past seven years, it's been the physical well-being that's suffered as the other two have flourished. This year, it's been the spiritual that keeps escaping my grasp, while the physical and intellectual have soared.

I'm not much of a fan of new year's resolutions, but I do hope that this year I can begin bringing the three into balance.