After the gym I stopped to see my Mom. She had surgery a couple months ago and is still pretty much housebound so I like to stop and see her often to check up on how she is doing and just to chat.
By the time I got back home after doing errands, it
was almost noon. I headed for my studio
and picked up my “to do list”. The usual
suspects, send out weekly invoices, pay some bills, answer emails, write a
blog, start the newsletter, etc. etc. and, oh yeah, design gift basket to fill the waiting orders.
It was when I looked at the orders and saw that all
of them were scheduled for delivery next week, I decided what to do next. Nothing….
That’s right, nothing….
I shut my studio door and put the "Gone Fishin'" sign on the knob, (mentally because there is no
door to my studio and I don't have a "Gone Fishin" sign), poured a glass of wine and turned the TV to On Demand. Don’t ask me what I watched because I couldn’t
tell you. I spend the whole day, doing
nothing. Well, I did finish crocheting
that baby blanket for a friend who is due in a couple of months, but that doesn’t
count.
Sometimes doing nothing is exactly what you need to
do to. Mentally, I was a chilly, dreary,
rainy day and even though I could have made the gift baskets I needed to fill the orders, written my blog
and newsletter and have done all of the other things I do in my job, doing nothing
was the better choice.
According to the weather forecast, it is going to be
chilly, dreary and rainy for the next several days, but I am back to feeling like
my warm, sunny self and am recharged and ready to go. Heading for the gym this morning, stopping to
see my Mom and running errands again but I’ll be back at my desk later this
morning rockin’ and rollin’.
The view from Laurel Mountain today is …
re-energized.
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