Or should I say settled? Unsettled? How to feel settled when you don’t? Here’s where I am…
Personal Development
117 Days. This is the number of days that will have passed from the day I found out my last surgery was a complete failure until the day I have the next surgery. This is the number of days I will have been in a total nightmare. We are 7 days out right now, so I’ve gotten through 110 of them. But let’s go back and examine this…
Today is a day of decision, a day to take an enormous breath, a day to stir from the savasana and begin my next stage with new plans. It has been a wild three plus months, one that I will explain over the course of a few posts. This period required that I go deeply inward and detach from writing for awhile, and I am so happy that I honored that need and did the work I did. But maybe now is a time of renewal? A time for a different pace, different intensity, different balance. Read on…
This is the page from my desk calendar today. No joke, I can’t make this stuff up! And I didn’t read ahead and plan out the timing. It just IS. I’m entering this new phase of new possibilities, new healing protocol, massive shifts, and I took a short midday nap. Amen.
Happy New Possibilities Day!
Yesterday’s blog post from Seth Godin is the fuel for this post from me. His thoughts are helping me further define and comfortably own the choices I make in regards to social media, friendships, involvement, and pace of life in general. We all have our perfect place and pace, our personal bowls of perfect porridge.
Tony Robbins has a new book, Life Force, coming out February 8, 2022. For several reasons, I’m very excited to read this one! As a prelude to its release, he is doing interviews about it and touching on some of the major themes and topics from the book. One topic that really resonates with me are his thoughts on life seasons, particularly Winter.
Progressive Overload is a training style talked about a lot in bodybuilding, but today I’m applying it to everything. Because if there’s anything in life that someone wants to improve at, progressive overload can be applied.
I took these photos of Willa in December but had to keep them a secret until yesterday. I had them printed in the sequence you see below on a large bamboo panel as a Christmas gift for David, but due to supply issues at my print house, it took until now to be made and sent. In any case, here they are! Faces of Willa, a moment of about 4 seconds duration on one random Saturday morning in December.
I went to our typewriter today to ink a message I’ve been receiving from others and also telling myself – keep going. Nothing difficult, elaborate, or new. (I’ve written about it before.) But, powerful in its simplicity. So, I share the typed page with you, the image at the top of this post. Typing it and then turning it into art gave me a few minutes to spend with it, a chance to solidify its message.
In honor of National Sticker Day, I pulled out my old laptop from about 9-10 years ago. Why? Never a fan of putting stickers on cars, I covered the computer case in meaningful stickers instead. I haven’t used this computer in years, so it was interesting to visit the stickers and remember their stories. It is amazing how different it all feels, like a different lifetime entirely.