You know that Sunday morning feeling, when there’s nothing pressing on your schedule, and the whole day stretches out in front of you like a French lavender field at the height of its bloom?
You’re in the shower, the water’s exactly warm enough, your eyes are closed, and nothing and no one is demanding your attention?
Aaaaaahhhhhhh ….
This is the life.
This is what you want more of.
THIS …
And then you remember the email you have to send your client to remind her of a missed payment.
And the doctor’s visit on Tuesday.
And dread has its claws in your stomach.
Bye bye lavender, hello mild to strong panic.
Goddammit!
You felt SO good only seconds ago, and now … back to real life.
(Whatever that is.)
Maybe you’ll feel like this again in the future.
After retirement.
When the kids left home. (How long??)
Or on that Sunday 7 1/2 months from now that still looks pretty open on your calendar.
Or maybe you need to dig up that mindfulness course you purchased 27 years ago and never even opened.
And in a split second, that okayness became something you need to work for so you can find it again in the future. (Fingers crossed.)
But this state of all-is-well even though your bank account is running dangerously low is not something you earn after 33 hail Marys and 57 hours of uninterrupted meditation.
It’s already here.
It’s what you feel when, unexpectedly, you’re not striving, not bracing, not preparing, not lost in thought for what usually lasts no longer than 3 seconds.
It was here the whole time.
You just kept walking past it on your way to something better.
Love,
P.S. That lavender-field-feeling is what opens more and more in private coaching.
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