Friday’s Free Refill: More or Less
It's the simple pleasures and letting go of the stressful bits that overwhelm us this time of year.
It’s December, Christmas no longer around a corner but in the final stretch.
Where is your refill level? On empty? Swirled around and going in so many directions you have no idea what your needs are and if they’re being met or not?
Christmas will come regardless of what you buy, make, prepare or do. So what about adopting a less is more attitude this month and just be?
The other day at the pool, instead of doing three more laps to make it to an even half mile workout, I flipped over on my back and floated. I let the warm water fill my ears. The other laps would have to wait until another day. All I could hear was my breath.
My breath not doing anything but being…and really what more is there to do but just be? What else really matters?
Christmas will come even if you don’t send out the perfect Christmas card, make home-made gifts, take the kids to see Santa, make a gingerbread house. But if in doing those things you are filled with joy, experience the Christmas Spirit, then by all means knock yourself out, go to town. But if you are stressed out and missing the joy, screw it and sit down and read a Christmas book and have a second cup of cocoa.