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Laurie
When I am aware of my breathing I remain fully present.
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November 2009 
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Very true. I love the image used here.
I'd love to know how many times a day you stop to check your breathing. There have been times that I was so stressed or pushed to the wall by a project that someone would mention in a concerned tone that I should take a breather. I'm not so interested in over-doing and multi- tasking as I have been in the past. Whole days would rush by, without me taking the time to enjoy each one. I have to make a certain effort not to go flying off to do this or that, but to consider how I really want to spend my time. Ha! Ha! The fact that you are breathing gives me great hope that you haven't bought the over-achiever's sales's pitch yet. “Run, Laurie, Run! There's still tons of stuff to do! Hurry!” It will still be there and so will you, very calmly breathing, breathing, and it will still be the present.
Sandi -
I am an achiever (lower-case 'a'), but not an Over-Achiever.
I Never (upper-case 'N') take more than 5 clients in a day (as much for their sake, as mine). I am blessed in that I do what I love, and love what I do.
I book at least 30-minutes between clients to focus on my breathing and recharge my energy (as much for their sake, as mine).
I am a single-tasker (what I do, I do very well by focusing on the task at hand).
I would rather poke a sharp stick in my eye than multi-task!
I see clients Tues, Wed, Fri, and Sat.
Thursdays are reserved exclusively for writing.
One Sunday per month I host an Event (upper-case 'E') at HolEssence. The rest are for Leisure (upper-case 'L') writing and recharging my battery.
Mondays are for yard work (mowing, raking leaves, or shoveling the snow - depending on the season); grocery shopping, laundry, all that type of stuff.
By intent I front-load my days; always starting with a cuppa hot tea and breathwork. I end that way too - usually with a good book [on Kindle] in hand.
I hope you're having an AMAZING day. I am!
Laurie – I am taking a lesson from your single tasking and front loading – what wonderful ideas!
Beautiful. I wake up each morning, and even before I go for that first PEE, I give thanks for my breath. Life validates itself - the recognition of presence is validation enough! Thanks my wise friend. I always get so much from even just a sentence uttered from you. ;-D
Hi, Laurie, you have things well in hand. When I get up, I'm usually just grateful to be breathing. I, on the other hand, am guilty of multi-tasking and have been diagnosed as an over-achiever, meaning that no matter what I accomplish, to me it's just not enough. So I've swallowed the bitter pill of knowing I can do it all, just not in one day. Maybe not in a week, or a month, but living day by day is best way I know to keep my running wild mind centered and focused on the present.
Sandi -
Or … things quite possibly have me well in hand. A turn of phrase, but if the shoe fits ….
“I'm usually just grateful to be breathing.” Ahhhh, there's that breathing thing again. I get up so darned early that I just sneak up on it. I look the other way while stretching and pretend I don't see it. Then all of a sudden it sneaks up on me like Peter Pan's shadow, and before you know it, I'm alive, breathing and ready to hit the ground running!
Excuse my curiosity, but is it a Yoga thing? I do sometimes feel like I don't use my lungs to their fullest capacity, (like my brain) and wonder if I might be losing tone and flexibility, that I might need down the line as I get older.
Tai Chi. I love it!