The migraine monster strikes again.

Yesterday I came down with another migraine. I don’t have time to be unable to work at 100%! Yesterday I needed to finalize the copy for the first week of my 8 Weeks to Financial Freedom program, get whatever hardware I need to record the first teleseminar meeting, as well as take care of Gracie and finish her laundry, do some shopping, etc. Perhaps that is the point. My sister and assistant, Victoria, came down with stomach troubles yesterday. She’s also involved in working on my 8 Weeks program, and had to finish projects for her clients, as well as tend bar last night (and it was her birthday on Sunday, so she had all the leftover junk left over from that). When I remarked that we did not have time for us to be sick, she said that we get sick because "we stress ourselves way too much." That is the problem. My body is trying to slow me down, but I really can’t do that today. Today I have two Get Acquainted appointments with new clients, the first meeting of my teleseminar class, and work to do because I am going out of town this week. Then tomorrow I’m shopping and packing for our camping trip (Thursday through Sunday in the Santa Cruz Mountains at Big Basin State Park) — and by the way, Mark may not be coming along due to work deadlines, so it may be just me and a toddler in the woods for four days and three nights — besides work deadlines early next week. Put all on top of this that I’m in between nannies (regular nanny starts again Nov. 6th) — so I am trying to do my full workload with less than 1/2 of my normal childcare hours — and no wonder my body is rebelling. I have been trying to take minimal care of myself — getting 7 hours of sleep and eating every 3 hours — but I could be doing better. The most difficult part is that I’m pretty happy in my life right now. I feel passionate about my business, I’m having great fun with Gracie, and life is pretty good. I wish I had more time alone with Mark (which will be helped when my regular nanny starts doing monthly Saturday night date nights for us again), I was exercising regulary, and a few unfinished things were done (home improvement projects) — but overall, life is good. I don’t want to slow down. But obviously my body does not agree with me. The question is — do I try to give in to my body, or help it to rise to the challenge?