I had a conversation with my colleague Evan earlier today,
that I just wanted to share with you guys. So
Last week started an experiment where
I'm just going slower in the morning.
I'm doing some yoga and stretching, some meditation, some reading,
some journaling and you know,
I previously I had set up about 50 minutes an hour to do some of these like morning
morning self care type of stuff.
But it was still feeling pretty crammed in and I was often skipping journaling.
I was usually not reading actually.
And then last week I sorta did a workcation.
I stayed at an Airbnb out of the city and kind of just on purpose.
It was like, you know, I'm gonna rest a lot more,
I'm gonna sleep in a lot more and just try to
catch up so to speak.
What I noticed was that doing these really slow,
really nourishing mornings was just like,
it just made me feel so good for the rest of the day to the point that I was
like,
why am I making this a special thing that I can only do,
when I'm out at an Airbnb or something.
So I was sharing this with my colleague Evan, and I was like,
I don't know if I can do this on a regular basis.
I don't know if I would be available until like 11 o'clock because I have to do
all this stuff, then I need to down at my desk. Anyways,
he was like, what are you talking about? First of all, Mike,
our other team member usually starts later than us anyways. He doesn't need you.
And
you and I we have all these touch points. It's all good.
So stop making up these reasons why you can't just do this, you know,
try this thing to take care of yourself. So
I don't know,
I just wanted to share that because I think probably I'm not the only one who
is making up reasons why we can't make our schedules and our allocation of
time, really work for us. So I'm really gonna give this a shot.
I'm gonna really slow down my mornings even more.
I had been booking just one focus mate in the morning for self care.
I'm gonna do two focus made sessions in the morning for self care starting
tomorrow.
And just do all of those things in a really slow and spacious way to set up my day.
So I'll keep you posted how that goes.
But just wanted to offer that story and a little encouragement to consider what
you can do to make your schedule work better for you.