Off the weekly work grid

And ever so lazy

Winter feels officially over in Montreal. The weekend sky is blue, the sun is shining, the air is a lot warmer and the snow has melted (lots of snow still in the Laurentians).  In spite of what should be energizing with this great weather and sweet smell in the air, I'm feeling lazy. I just don't feel like doing very much.

Admitting laziness for me is akin to facing the fear that every ounce of ambition, willpower and motivation I own will slip-slide away and I will be trapped in Dante's slackerhood inferno if I don't get cracking, moving and doing. In short, if I am not productive I am doomed.

Thankfully, I'm in the grip of this irrational idea for only a few fleeting moments because I'm a natural at cognitive reframing:  I can change my mindset and find the positive or alternative explanations for most negative ideas.

I reframe by reminding myself that:

• It is perfectly normal to feel a bit tired at the end of the work week
• Hours of dance rehearsals and a recent 'performance' consumed all kinds of energy
  
• After my Friday osteopathy treatment I feel mildly sore
  
• Farmland benefits from fallow time so why can't I have it, too?
  
• Constant planning, organizing and being on the move during time off is an over-valued compulsion
  
• We all need to relax and have a change of pace -- noodling and puttering is good for you
  
• Our brains need time off to recharge, to process and consolidate what we have been learning and thinking about all week
  

Regardless of your personal and professional challenges, it is necessary to lessen the unsustainable pressures and demands for output, productivity and efficiencies, especially when off the work grid for a few days!

What I have done today amounts to this:

• Coached clients in Alberta and BC
  
• Made a vegetable soup stock
  
• Went for a walk
  
• Wrote this blog
  
• Ate handfuls of peanuts and raisins, gummy bears, and slices of baguette with cheese -- while watching birds at the feeder outside
  

It's been busy off the weekly work grid and ever so lazy -- a very good weekend.

Coach Minda

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