Elephant Sandwich

I know that mindset matters.

I believe in affirmations.

I am also 💯% sure that if I don’t show up for that stuff, what I know doesn’t matter. I’ve been getting up early so that I can steal some quiet time while the dog and his dad are on their walk.

I started a journaling challenge on January 1 and because I have kept that commitment, each day, without trying, I’ve added more productivity. The laundry is under control, the kitchen is clean, we’ve eaten better, the bed is made, I’ve been posting on social media, and I’ve been using a planner...I woke before 5 a.m. without an alarm.

You can’t get momentum without movement. What actions get your day rolling?

It feels like I’ve been in the cocoon a long time. I think I was trying to decide if I am willing to emerge and step into the awkward newness again. I needed to marinate in the thought that staying put isn’t ever a real option. It’s annoying.

My ego says I have to hide until I am graceful and certain but that only comes by surviving clumsy and unsure. The only shortcut is to trust that it won’t be that awful, and there will a lot of awesome times swirling around with the suck.

In some ways I will always be the new girl, woman, person, thing…because I am endlessly restless and perpetually curious. These are my gifts and sometimes my curses because they keep pushing me out of comfy nests to prove that I was designed to fly.

P.S. You were given wings too. Care to stretch them?