Usually I wake up on my own without an alarm but this morning I woke up because my cat Bear was meowing so incessantly I thought I must have slept in.. but it was still 30 minutes until his normal breakfast time. 

But I got up, got his breakfast for him, and went back to my bedroom because I was still sleepy.

It’s a rare, cool morning without smoke in the air so I opened the window, lay down and appreciated the fresh air. Soon, Bear finished his breakfast and joined me.

And I was like… why go out for coffee with my laptop like I’d planned when I could be here, enjoying the cool breeze with my amazing cat?

I thought about dealing with traffic and the noise of the world and whatever “get up and go” I still had in me just vanished.

I used to get up on a gorgeous morning like this and be EXCITED to get out there and enjoy it. 

I miss that.

AND there are benefits to how I’ve slowed down, and work from home on my own more.

And today I knew that it would actually be good for me to get out. So I decided to push myself a bit, and take a longer bike ride through forested river trails to get to a quieter coffee shop with a huge window that overlooks a small meadow.

I’m so glad I did.

My brain changes in a coffee shop! A fresh hot mug of coffee and a seat by a window and…. I can think more clearly.

I’m so proud of the work I did this morning.

Then on my way home the wind was against me and I was cycling hard and got to that point where (I don’t know, is it endorphins?) my body just changed. I felt elated.

I’m so glad I did that. It feels like a kind of metaphor for creative dreaming. 

We aren’t always going to feel like showing up and taking risks and forcing/pressuring ourselves is not the answer… but how can we hold our desire to show up just as strongly as we hold our resistance?

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