Momentum

I'm embarrassed to admit how much working just 12 hours a week is helping me. I love and value the work that I have done for the last 11 years, being home with my daughters. This new little bit of structure, though, is really bringing back some momentum that has been lacking in my daily life.

I wish I had picked up on more surfer lingo in my college days, 'cause I could probably use it now to help describe what this feels like a little more creatively. I feel like there are these waves of energy flowing in my life, and I am learning to catch them and ride them in. They're not perfectly regular, but they are fairly consistent. I miss some, I fall off others, and sometimes I really crash and burn. But I have the opportunity, almost daily, to try again to catch that wave, and the energy feels really good.

A big part of my new discipline work continues to be my choice to go to bed earlier and get more sleep. This is a hard, hard thing for me, and much of what I am having to give up is my blogging and web surfing time. I hadn't really recognized how much I was blogging really late at night! I'm looking for a new balance that allows me to stay connected but where I don't allow myself to fall down the hole of endless hours of computer time (and that's always a temptation for me). I'm also making time for other types of relaxation, which is something that I think I will write about in another post...