For the past month or so, I’d been dealing with my left eye twitching non-stop. At first I figured it was allergies. Then I thought maybe I’d been spending too much time in front of the computer, so I eased up. Nope, wasn’t that.
The second week, when I noticed that it didn’t seem to be going away or lessening in frequency, I did the self-medicating, almighty Google search. The two leading causes of eye twitches…stress and lack of sleep. Ah, well that made sense. I was working a lot and felt a little overwhelmed from time to time – especially when dealing with certain clients.
Then the stress died down. Hmmm…must be sleep then. I know, I’ll just sleep more. I mean, since I’d starting teaching at the college, my Tuesdays and Thursdays required a nap after class to reboot my day, so it sounded like a plan. So sleep it was!
Only sleep it wasn’t. Sleeping more didn’t cut down on the twitching. Though it did make me feel a bit more normal and able to function like a real person.
At this point I had to stop and take a moment to figure out what this insane twitching was all about. I mean, it was there all the time, non-stop throughout the day and as I was falling asleep.
It had to mean something.
So I got to thinking…the twitching was going on in the eye, so it must mean that there’s something going on that I’m not seeing clearly or seeing at all.
Whoa.
Once I acknowledged this, the twitching eased up a bit. It was still there, all day, any day. But it wasn’t as persistent. We just might be on to something.
Then one day, while out at a business conference, I met up with a colleague. We were talking about the possibilities around getting interns to help with our businesses. I had some logistical issues to work out still, but I decided then and there that I would, indeed be getting myself an intern.
I noticed once I got home that the twitching had almost gone away. This was very interesting because during this particular week I was probably averaging 5-6 hours of sleep at night. Why so interesting, you ask? Well, that meant that I was sleeping less each night and was crazy planned to the gills compared to the weeks prior. And yet the twitching decreased.
Guess it wasn’t sleep or stress related after all.
A couple days later still, I had lunch with a good friend. We were discussing interns and assistants and what makes one more useful than the other and having a great conversation about knowing when to ask for help. At this point, my friend mentioned that she might have to let her assistant go since she needed more hours than the gal was able to give.
The bells starting ringing!
This could be exactly what I needed…an assistant looking for only few hours that had experience in the things I most needed help with. Not only that, but she was someone that my friend trusted.
Oh.My.God.
I talked it over with my friend and she’s making the introduction. I’m also still going to follow through with getting that intern. I’m not yet exactly sure what tasks I can comfortably delegate to an intern, but I’ve learned that I have to delegate something or I’m going to go crazy.
And yes, you guessed it…since I made this decision, my twitching eye has stopped twitching. Completely. Really, sometimes you just need to take a moment, sit down with yourself and figure out what’s going on.
So what’s going on in your life that you might not be fully aware of?
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