Nothing days. (Or nothing half-days)

If you have a day that is free from obligations, try to live it without checking the clock. Put the clock, the phone, the to-do lists away, and let yourself simply do exactly what you want. Not what your brain wants (“I’m finally going to get through that online course or that book or that pile of knitting!”), but what your BODY wants. When you wake up, simply wake up, without checking to see what time it is. When you are hungry, simply eat, without checking to see what time it is. When you feel like doing something, simply do so, and when you feel like exercising simply do so. If you feel like lying down, do it. If you feel like taking a bath, go right ahead. Let your day flow from one thing to another until its over.

Moving FROM where you are (especially if where you are is tired)

Being tired does not need to mean that you have to immediately shut down operations and go to bed and rest until you have energy again. That simply isn’t feasible for most of us. But what you can do is learn to let tiredness in. Allow it, and move from there. This goes for sadness, anxiety, resistance, and all of the other states of being that make us feel like not-our-most-exciting-and-productive-selves.

So for example, making dinner while tired. Simply allow the tiredness to fill your body, and move from there. Allow it to express itself in slowness, in heaviness. Move at a pace where the tiredness doesn’t need to be pushed aside. While you’re here, look at how different the world looks and feels. It can take on a really beautiful, languid, and nurturing side to itself, when you move with tiredness in the drivers seat.

Why take the most direct and efficient route to get somewhere? Why not take the pretty route? The route that drives past something you like seeing. The route that you've never taken before just for the hell of it. The route that you don't look at the map to figure out just for fun. The route that you let your intuition guide you on. How would it change your approach to life if you didn't have to do everything in the shortest time possible? If your to-do-list remained unfinished at the end of the day and that was totally fine because you actually felt alive, and present in your life and your body... 

We think we know everything. We think we’re in charge. We think that the present moment is the end: that we are so in control of our lives and our world that even in the process of pulling everything out, it ‘should’ look good.

Take the entire timeline of humanity as a whole, stretch it out like a piece of string, from one end of the globe to the other. Then put your pinkie finger somewhere in the middle of it. That is what you get to see and experience: one tiny, tiny piece of a larger whole. It is not your job to make it perfect: we might not even get to see the pantry in a moment of perfection. It is only your job to do what you can, in what time you have.

The rest is not your job.