Showing posts with label Taking Time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taking Time. Show all posts

Monday, August 8, 2011

SOMETHING FOR NOTHING


With any luck, by the time you are reading this, we will have had a glorious weekend of warm sunshine, long walks, bike rides, kayak paddles, barbeques and all the things people do when the sun comes out in Seattle. 

What did you do last weekend? Did you clean your house?  Pay bills?  Do yard work?  Accomplish something so you didn’t feel like you wasted the weekend away?  Or did you enjoy the onset (finally) of summer, by leaving all that behind to play?

Here’s the thing. We are conditioned that we must always be achieving, working towards a goal.  Planning, scheduling, keeping busy.  Filling that calendar with more and more. No blank pages!  No wasted time!

What would happen if you decided to spend an entire weekend doing nothing? Actually scheduled it as your weekend plan.  Wrote it on the calendar? 
Saturday:  Nothing. 
Sunday:    Nothing. 
Of course, you’d have to prepare food and clean up and walk the dog and take the garbage out.  But what if you let all but the essential chores go?