Here’s my encouragement today.
After you read this, wherever you are…
1. Set a 5 min timer on your phone
2. Put your phone away (preferably on “Do Not Disturb” as well)
3. Sit or lay down with your eyes closed
4. Focus on your breath and let your mind wander wherever it takes you.
Everything and everybody can wait.
Take those 5 minutes to be still.
Do it for yourself.
You need this.
Don’t beat yourself up if you need a long break.
It’s good to take a whole mental health day to reset (maybe a few).
Stepping away provides a perspective we wouldn’t get if we were always on the go.
What is it about a warm cup of coffee that makes us feel good?
Maybe it’s the taste first thing in the morning.
It definitely hits the spot.
We can get it in our heads that if we’re not moving forward, fast and furious, then we will be left behind.
This is one of the self-limiting beliefs I had for many years. The notion that there is some race.
What I’ve come to realize is that we can all move forward, extremely fast, but it comes at a big cost. We rush projects, we rush parenting, we rush our partners. We are so worried about the days ahead that we forget the moment we are in right now.
You can’t turn back the clocks.
Days can pass slowly but years sometimes feel like they’ve flown by. That’s how our minds look at the past. More highlights versus seeing a whole rewind of the game.
The need for patience always comes at the most difficult times. The times where we need to take a deep breath or a “chill pill” we are normally racing around a mile a minute and worrying.
That’s where the practice of patience becomes an important part of our accessory work.