Labor Day Weekend 2023

Labor Day Weekend 2023

How do you feel about Holiday weekends?  Do you have an attachment to them being “a certain way?”  Do you think they should be different than other weekends?  Better? 

I’ve noticed that my clients put pressure on “it” (the holiday weekend).

“Is it ‘good enough?’”
“Are my plans good enough?”
“Am I ‘good enough?’”
“I should be traveling.”
“I should be doing more.”
“I should be doing less.”
“I should be seeing more people.”
“I should be seeing less people.”
“I should be getting organized.”
“I should be cleaning.”
“I should be doing something ‘better’ than cleaning.”
“I should be doing something ‘better’ than organizing.”
“I should be at the beach.”
“I should be in the mountains.”
“I should be somewhere better than this.”
“What are they doing?” (Scrolling social media)
“They’re doing something ‘better’ than I am.” (Scrolling social media)
“They look ‘happier’ than I am.” (Scrolling social media)

 Oy, the pressure, the distraction, the wobble, the suffering.  Why?  Why do we do it?

• Sloppy lazy thinking.
• An old vibration contradicting what we want.
• It’s what everyone does.
• We don’t know any better (yet…that ends after you read this email ha ha).

I was walking with a friend last Friday and she asked if I was “so excited for tomorrow!?”

I was startled for a moment because I didn’t know to what she was referring. I have intentionally trained myself to live in the NOW.  In 2000 I was at the Yoga Journal conference in NYC and my yoga teacher and I were eating dinner and he wondered out loud if he was teaching the following day…he had to pull up the schedule to see.  “I want that,” I thought to myself.  And my training began.*  I trained myself from being a planning junkie (Virgo, Ivy League, Over-achiever) to being here, now, in this moment and satisfied where I am.

Ironically and hilariously, my friend was referring to my birthday dinner which she and my other wonderful friends had planned for me at a beautiful restaurant on the water.  Adorable and so kind and generous.  It wasn’t that I was unappreciative, it was that I was in the NOW and just honestly had no idea. 

*This means my training was successful and I highly recommend it, the living in the NOW and being present and satisfied with what is.  Try it sometime.  😊 😊

My “babies” (now 13 years old) are two of my biggest teachers (twin boys).  They have fun no matter what or where or when or how - or who’s there - or not there – no matter the weather, no matter the accommodations, they’re in the NOW and they’re happy with what is.  They are the pure embodiment of joy.  They’re as happy at home chillin’ as they are in Aruba, Bahamas, California, Cancun, Costa Rica, Disney, France, Italy, Nantucket, NYC, Saint John, Seattle, Switzerland, or Turks and Caicos.  They are in the NOW and they find joy in the what is, no matter what “it” is.  They’re having a blast.💥  We have traveled a lot with them - even when they were in my tummy - and so they are used to it but not attached to it.  Wherever you go, there you are. 

Big teachers, those Chickens 🐣🐣🐣.  Look around you today, you also have teachers showing you the way.