Spinning Plates

Have you ever seen someone who spins plates at the circus or at a half-time show or something. The term is used a lot to describe people who have so much going on that they feel like they are "spinning plates" trying to keep everything from falling. But if you have ever seen someone do this in real life, maybe you have noticed that plate-spinners don't ever look or seem stressed, worried, or frantic.

Maybe it is because they have dropped plates often enough to know that there is always another one to replace it. Maybe they understand that even the best "plate-spinners" drop them occasionally while they are learning how to spin more and more plates.

That is a skill I need to learn. HAHA. Not the plate-spinning part, but the part about being ok if one falls. Relaxing in the reality that there is another opportunity and that it isn't the end of the world.


The funny thing about plate-spinning is that the person spinning them is the only one who determines how many plates they will spin at the same time. Recently I have been realizing that the biggest expectations placed on me are the ones I am placing on myself constantly. Not sure why I push myself so hard sometimes, but I am looking into that right now as a matter of a fact :) Gonna downsize some of my own plates (unnecessary expectations), and learn to relax a little better. Reading another one of those books that is jacking me up. It is called Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership by McIntosh and Rima. Good stuff!