I never thought I’d have to work so hard at carving a little bit out of every day for just me. I work too many hours, and I owe everyone everything–a call, a letter, an email, a meal, a meeting, something always. So each day when a moment comes that I think, your shoulders are around your ears, just lower them and forget it all for a few minutes…
I figure out some way to indulge myself. Today I popped some corn and poured a glass of pink lemonade and finished the book I was reading. Just a mental escape from all of the should do/must do/need to do buzz in my brain. I learned the hard way more than ten years ago that if I don’t give myself a break, the Universe will force one on me. It literally broke my back. It took a year of medication and physical therapy to deal with that. Don’t want to be there again.