I was a jerk to my wife yesterday. I was stressed and I let that bubble over to her.
I’ve been trying a new experiment where I stack the beginning of my week with almost everything I have to do for the week. I’m trying to get done in three days what it used to take me five days to accomplish.
Combine that with long hold times on the phone with my health insurance company, and you had yourself a rather grumpy Jonathan. (I’ve apologized and made amends.) But I’m asking my wife to stick through the journey with me.
I know, if I can embrace this new schedule, that I’ll have so much more time in my week. This pressure I feel isn’t bad. It’s good. It means I’m growing. (I just can’t allow that to affect my relationships.)
I want to encourage you to embrace pressure. Pressure and heat are the forces that create diamonds from a lump of coal. Pressure and heat are good things. You just have to be flexible and not let it crack you.
Tackle something amazing today. And embrace the extra pressure. Eventually that extra pressure will turn you into something better than you were.