Days of Our Lives

My grandmother used to stop every afternoon to sit down and watch her soap.

I remember the narrator saying "like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives”

The voice and his words sounded like fate mixed with intrigue with a moment or two of joy sprinkled on top.

Those words came to my mind today as I wrote from North Carolina.

We loaded the car and migrated from the Ozarks to the Appalachians yesterday.

We will spend two months here celebrating family.

Today is my niece’s birthday, then mine in a few days, then a string of others until May 11 when my dad turns 90.

In between there is Easter and Mother’s day, so every few days there’s a birthday or holiday for the next 5 to 6 weeks.

In the midst of the family activity, there is also a lot going on in both Your Profit Team and bookskeep.

I travel to the Ecommerce mastery.ai event in Nashville next month, and a Profit First Mastery event in Salt Lake City in May.

This morning, being in a new place, I was feeling adrift.

All the activities were running through my mind, along with the suitcases to unpack, groceries to buy, website updates and employee trainings.

My reading this morning brought me back into focus.

This quote got my attention: “The energy of being has more power than outright persuasion, debate or force of will” by Mark Nepo summarizing Carl Jung.

I was allowing all the things to weigh on me.

They called for me to exert my will and make a list and start checking it off.

I needed to slow down and get grounded in this place and let myself be in these old mountains and enjoy this beautiful spring morning with the Carolina blue sky.

Taking a moment to connect with my own breath settled me.

Its Monday, and sometimes that brings on the overwhelm of all you need to get done.

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Then take a breath and a moment to get centered, after all these are the days of our only life, so let’s enjoy them.

Cyndi