To Do Lists "BREATHE"

\'breth'\ vb 1: to inhale and exhale 2: LIVE 3: to halt for rest 4: to utter softly or secretly~
Gotta, gotta, gotta do this, gotta do that, oh no I, I, I...on and on and on...sometimes I find that these are my days and at the end of the day I find if I don't put BREATHE on my' to do list ', then really nothing gets done at all! 
Do you ever have these days?  Or are all your days like this?  I do have goals and dreams and aspirations and so want to live my life to the fullest, but nothing will get accomplished if I don't do the simplest task on my list, BREATHE.  Inhale, exhale,..inhale, exhale..ok now that's a bit better.  As I am sitting her typing I even find my mind racing and holding my breath?!...LOL...Without this simple gift of breath, we, I really have nothing at all!  I miss out on my day, on the things and life I am creating and then simply living out of myself. 
Yesterday this all hit me and made me rethink Breathe and  I had an aha moment!  Coming back from cleaning, I had a million and one things to do before I left for my daughters graduation ceremony.  One task was to finish some painting panels for my yoga bags so I can bring them to my mom's for her to start sewing while I am away this weekend.  These bags are going to Kripalu, so they have to be my bestest work ever!  Gulping down my lunch without BREATHE, I enter my studio with the same pace and as one brush stroke turns into another and another, I STOP in my tracks and literally had to take a BREATH!  OMG I said!  I'm not breathing and I and rushing to get this done!  I was not enjoying what I was doing and found I wasn't even SEEING what it was I was creating!  Once this realization hit, I stopped, put down the brushes turned off my lights and left the studio.  I grabed a cup of tea and sat outside and closes my eyes.  Inhale, ...exhale...inhale...exhale...slowly, slowly...I started to hear the birds, then I started to listen to them, hearing the level of notes and listening to one over here and then over there and then a car pass by, a bee hum near me, then the notes of the bird over my head.  BREATHE

Live Life in Color and out LOUD!