I get asked for guidance and support sometimes. I help people get through problems. I facilitate my own groups. Part of my advice is to be responsible and to act from integrity.

And sometimes I find it hard in my own life to follow my own advice. It happened recently with someone I had a hard time with. I did not agree with their position, but regardless, I put my head in the sand for a while.

Many things in my life have been truly exciting and fulfilling in a forward-moving way in the last year. At the same time, there has still been a lot of residue of lots of challenges, and new ones, too. Right now I am trying to keep a lot of balls in the air. Sometimes I hit some degree of overwhelm and don’t face things as firmly as I would like to or follow through as quickly as would be good. I am working on it, and I am getting better at giving myself compassion. It is one thing to know you need improvement and to be working on it, and another to put too much energy toward self judgment that becomes negative.

Lately I have been feeling better attuned to a healthy balance between acknowledging what I may not have done very well, or something I feel quite challenged with, and feeding the forward-moving energy and light. It feels good, and true. I am putting the bulk of my energy toward feeding my visions and where I want to leap toward. This feels like the right balance, and it is nice to pass it on to others, too.

If someone came to me and said they had messed up and dropped the ball in dealing with someone else, I think I would probably say something like, “Well, we are all human, and we don’t always perform as we might like.”