I was talking to my physical therapist the other day about how much tension I feel at the start of a week. Even after doing ‘the work’ (meditating, journaling, writing down my intentions for the day and for the week), I feel a nagging pull towards the mountain that is THE UPCOMING WEEK. Perhaps it’s messaging from work that I get triggered by on Mondays. Perhaps it’s keeping track of the days and soccer practices and when we’re doing dinner. Whatever it is…by the time we get over the hump on Wednesday afternoons, I feel so much more spaciousness and allowing within my body.

My PT shared something that she heard on the radio, but couldn’t recall who it was who was being interviewed and dropped this nugget of knowledge. Rather than our first thought of the morning being, “oh gosh, this is going to be a challenging day”, we can try a little shift, and say to ourselves, first thing, “Look at that, I got through the day and everything worked out!” I liked this; I feel it lends itself nicely to the idea of increasing self-efficacy, our confidence in our ability to do something. We start the day with the grounding thought, “I rocked this day” as though it already happened, and the power of saying that brings an ease. I can feel it in my body even now as I type this, a sweet relief.

My day today feels a bit comical at this point. My husband left early this morning for a work trip, so I’ve been up since 4:45 am. I’m currently in the process of getting my youngest ready to go out the door (oldest already left), and then afterwards, I have four work calls, including two one-hour training calls for some new hires, starting at 9:30. And to make it spicy, our building is in the process of replacing all our traditional door handles with the Latch system, and our floor is being done TODAY. At some point, they’ll come to my apartment to work on our door, which will need to be left open for a period of time. This means that every time I get on a call, I will have to lock up our cats. It also means that I might be doing these calls with workers in the same room as me and our door open to the hallway. My kids and I then have to figure out how to work this new app and get into our apartment without my husband here to go through it with us. And, if we have questions, the best time to ask will be when they’re here working on the door, but if it overlaps with a call, then there goes that opportunity. I am also managing a special queue at work this week AND I am reviewing cases from a trainee.

So- I am trying to flip the script myself this morning. You know what? I rocked this day.

Leaving you with my card pulls from the Tapping Solution app after I meditated this morning. They’re good ones (the Joy one especially hits, given the dumpster fire period of history that we are in this week/month/year/decade. Even with all this, I will find moments to savor, and so should you).

I Rocked Today

Tabbouleh