As a Life Coach and Career Strategist, I was invited to be a guest on KCLA 99.3 FM Radio TONIGHT at 8:30 p.m. (Wed. 4/15/09) My topic is “‘Flow’ During Changes in Challenging Times.”

During my pre-taped show, Deborah Dachinger, the host of the Dare to Dream show, asked me to talk about my own experiences with flow.  As I said to her, being a person of high-energy, this is a passionate topic for me because it’s a life-long journey to live with flow.  Like most people, when pursuing my interests I can get very excited and focused and forget to balance this with the important downtime I need to regenerate and be sure I want to continue on the track I’m on and with the same course of actions.

Most of us who enjoy what we do can get so bogged down in the details and the significance we apply to our work, that we let other equally or more important objectives slip by the wayside.  You cannot push a river – and that includes all those goals we long to see manifest.  Our work is to find that delicate balance through committing to a life where we consistently return ourselves to a mindfulness of presencing flow.

How do you do live from flow?  Share your “comments” to this blog at http://www.creatingatwill.com/blog.   See the online press release on this show by clicking here.

Today my heart was pumping and I felt an adrenaline excitement about all the projects I had lined up for the day.  I also felt an overriding anxiousness.  I’ve been here before. 

I asked myself how I could get it all done and felt a slight tremor that was pushing me to get into action.  But instead, I sat and waited for that solid, centered base to operate from.  This is the difference for me now in my life. 

Everyday I start with a short meditation, even when my mind is racing.  I ask for peace and pace.  I know that either one will certainly bring the other.  It regulates my workload and let’s me focus on my “nothing is important” mantra that I repeat when I find I’m getting overly significant about what I’m doing and what I have to be doing. It’s one thing to be enthusiastic for the projects I’m doing, the people I’m working with, the ideas I want to manifest…it’s another thing to feel a drive that makes you forget to breathe, eat regularly and get up from your computer to stretch and get out in the day. 

My meditations are one way I center my day.  I begin them after I shower and change and before I have breakfast or do anything else. 

I’ve found that even one phone call or checking my emails starts a trail of to-do’s that makes it harder to get back to the first breath of morning stillness or even show up for the meditation at all.  I set a timer now to remind me to keep my computer time short throughout the day.   

What do you do to keep your peace and pace?