A Day

I am having a day. I woke up this morning with the freshness of a new week.

Every morning after my shower, I ask my Google Home for the weather report while my coffee brews. I barely heard the words rain and snow. Honestly, it really didn’t even register.

I work from home on Mondays. I especially like the pace of it. My daily list was created quickly. More than I would get done but at least it was all on paper.

Before I knew it, I was cruising through my email. Delete, reply, file. Until I got to the one that said, “Hey, we lost your work. Can you resend those pictures and those couple of videos you did?”

Um, actually, No. I can’t. I deleted them. I hate space sucks on my phone.

And just like that, I noticed the weather. Isn’t it MF mid-October? Why is it snowing already?

I know all this is not the end of the world but right now it matters to me.

I have a lot of people who reached out to me over the past week. One email, one voicemail, one chat, one prescheduled phone call for this afternoon, etc. I planned to respond to all of them. Now I am grumpy.

I took a deep breath. I asked myself, what do you need?

I did some appreciative inquiry…what is good about this situation? What can I be grateful for here?

I let myself be disappointed and I didn’t try to pretend that it was okay. I located the heavy feeling in my body. Right smack dab in my solar plexus.

I wondered if my responses could wait another day without explanation or if I should reach out and say, “Hey, I plan to get back to you - but right now I am feeling a little grumpy so you are better off if I delay.”

I imagined setting aside my dismal mood and tapping into a higher level of energy and interacting with my beloveds inspite of it all. As I thought about that, I knew that I was certainly capable. I do have the know how and the tools to do so.

The thing is, I don’t want to right now.

I just want to feel heavy and disappointed.

So instead, I chose to write this to process and honor my full spectrum of emotions in this beautiful human experience.

And through it all, I remain grateful for every single day.

Including this one.

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Be Well. Be Intentional. Create a life you love.