We came home from our trip today and all I could think about was how I wanted to go climbing.
usually when we’re back from a trip like this all I want to do is rest and be alone. But now we have our Sunday routine and I really miss the climbing when we don’t do it.
So I told my introvert itself to be quiet, took a little nap and then a shower and went back out to do some climbing.
Of course it was worth it because it’s worth it every single time. And now I’m resting in a bath, grateful for this day.
There’s always magic in going out and doing the thing.
I love routine and for the most part I think that’s a really good thing. Routine allows me to create an intentional life and spend time on what matters most to me and what I want to improve. Routine makes it easy to show up and easy to get things done.
And yet it also makes it easy to get stuck in a rut. Doing the same things again and again doesn’t give me the time to take a step back and evaluate.
This is where a change of scenery helps the most. A new place, a change in routine, a new perspective.
For someone who loves being home as much as I do, it can be really hard to go on vacation. And yet time away is always helpful.
Every single time.
Yes to taking time away. Yes to rest. Yes to the woods.
Wednesdays are tough over here. I start 8am and don’t end until 8pm, at which point I am wiped and can’t even think.
So I start my days with meditation and yoga to ensure I am calmer than usual and grounded.
And I think I need something to also end my days with so I can re-ground myself again so I don’t carry over Wednesday’s stress to Thursday. Maybe that’s a short walk outside or a short journaling session.
Either way, today I’m grateful to have made it through this Wednesday and grateful that this week is almost at an end. It was a short but mighty week so far.
Yes to yoga and yes to grounding. Yes to making in through Wednesdays!
I continue to be excited about this project and all the ways in which it’s encouraging me to push myself or make small changes towards prioritizing wellness.
It’s been such a gift.
I love that it allows me to appreciate and celebrate what I am doing without punishing myself for what I am not doing.
That might not sound like a big deal but it’s a huge deal to someone who tends to focus on the negative more often than not.
One of the things I’ve learned when it comes to wellness is that we don’t all care about the same things and value the same things.
I have friends who consider putting make up on in the morning or making their bed in the morning part of their wellness journey. Those would not make it on my list. But getting my hair done would.
To be fair, it wouldn’t have five years ago. Back then, I’d get my hair done once every 4-5 months and that was plenty. Now it’s a monthly appointment and one I look forward to. Something that makes me feel happy and helps me feel more comfortable in my body.
I used to be very judgemental about how people should get to spend their time and energy. And I’ve learned that we each walk our paths and it is not up to me to say how others are walking theirs. I am learning how to walk mine and how to define what wellness means to me.
Two weeks ago, jake and I meant to go climbing but at 3pm on Sunday we suddenly realized it wasn’t going to work out because we still had to get big boy’s birthday cake and the sun was going to set soon.
I decided then and there that we wouldn’t do this again. I put a calendar reminder for us to leave the house by 2pm every Sunday so we could go climbing. If we decided to go Saturday that week, awesome. Or if we went Sunday morning that’s awesome too. But if we didn’t go by Sunday at 2pm, we were to leave immediately.
The goal was to make it weekly routine so it wouldn’t be a discussion each week. And this week it worked perfectly. I’ve learned that the most effective way to combat inertia is to make something into a routine. And yet I keep not doing this.
Not sure why I keep having to learn this lesson again and again but here we are.
Here’s to climbing regularly and finding ways to create routine structures for the life that I want to live vs the life inertia is making me default to.
Yes to choosing the way I spend my time. Yes to climbing more.
