Fridays I am tired. After a week of all my family activity with a soon-to-be-5-year-old daughter (whose social life alone exhausts me : ), seeing clients, writing blogs, and everything else in my juicy life – I am pooped when Friday rolls around. And I love to simply surrender to it. So as I was laying down with my daughter for her Friday afternoon nap – I thought “blog or nap?” and guess what won? NAP! Yummy! After about half an hour I woke up and enjoyed the precious presence of my sleeping daughter in my arms. Paying attention to her delicate features, the beauty of her closed eyes and long lashes, the sturdy arch of her eye brows and the sweet curve of her nose. How good it felt to slow things down to experience this moment and feel the gratitude. And I still had time for the blog. Enjoy your Friday friends!
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Reclaim what is fun for you
As introverts we have to break from the cultural script to reclaim that which brings us energy, contentment and joy. The extroverted oriented culture pushes us towards group activities, picnics, parties, and events as the definition of fun. At times that may be exactly what we want to do. Yet how many times are we encouraged either overtly or very subtly to do some group activity that just isn’t how we prefer to spend our precious time? And how hard it can be to say no even for the most empowered introvert. Yet it is essential to redefine and reclaim fun on our own terms. Curl up with a good book, go for a hike in nature, meditate, cook, write, spend time with a best friend, listen to your music with the volume on high, sign up for a writer’s retreat, go for a run, sip coffee and read the paper . . . what is your version of fun? Are you doing it? Do something you enjoy everyday. Let it be a daily practice.