WARNING: Stay away from here this summer!

…If you get caught up it’s on you!

Before I could say good morning to my wife or hear my daughter talk about making eggs for breakfast, I felt overwhelm trying to overtake my morning.

The first thing that popped into my mind after my eyes popped open was JUNE!

…WHERE DID JUNE GO?

My mental dam broke, and all of these uninvited thoughts marched into my perfectly imperfect morning!

·       WTH?! It’s the last day of the month!

·       It’s the last day of June (a beautiful summer month – my birthday month) …did I do enough to enjoy it?

·       The pool isn’t ready!

·       We don’t have a safe vacation getaway planned yet!

·       There’s still so much left on both my work and life to-do list.

·       Where did the last 30 days go?

After acknowledging the stress and overwhelm, I took a deep breath.

I took a couple of Bliss pills and walked myself through my tapping technique (it’s proven to reduce stress by 43%).

Then I returned to this thought:

We live in a culture of relentless productivity and it has us feeling some kind of way about wasting time. We have this reflex to remain available, to produce, to stay in a place of readiness, even when things are complete.

We sit behind the computer, on our phone, on a website, scrolling on social to feed this bullshit notion of “busy.”

IT’S A PLACE KNOWN AS NEITHER-NESS.

IT’S WHERE WE’RE NEITHER HAPPY NOR PRODUCTIVE!

So, I’ll leave you with this for the rest of the days we have left….

Ask yourself: Is it bringing me happiness at the moment or pushing me closer to my goal?

Or is it just taking up energetic space?

Whatever the activity - forget how it’s defined, just be sure it’s either fueling your growth or giving you space to unwind.

AVOID that place of neither-ness -- it tricks you into thinking that it’s more when it’s really less.