Hi!
It has been a long couple of months and today is the first day that I felt like I could relax a bit.  I decided to take a yoga class this morning not quite thinking about the fact that I also had a dance class this evening.  I have been challenged with a cold for the past week so half way through the yoga class I became desparate for the corpse pose that usually comes at the end of the class.  I was so tired by the time I was finished that I could hardly hold my head up.  Luckily lunch revived me a bit and I made it through the rest of the afternoon.  When I got to my dance class I realized that I had planned poorly that day!  It was pretty much the end of me!  And the worst part of the whole day was that I had the opportunity to give and receive hugs but I was so tired, I forgot to ask. 

That has been the case for most of this challenge.  I have been very preoccupied and feeling very tired and so I forget that I am on this challenge.  I forget to ask for hugs when I am with people and it’s not until the end of the day that I realized I didn’t do so well with the challenge today.  Being tired will do that to you.  Being tired reduces your ability to focus and also reduces your ability to be in the moment.  You are less likely to take advantage of opportunities or ideas that are right in front of you because you are too tired to see them.   

Time for a revamp!  Time to get my priorities straight.  I need hugs (and I want to do more writing which has not been going well at all)!  Every morning my plan is to remind myself that I am on this challenge and that I will be giving it the time and focus it deserves.  Then the rest of my day will have to fit around it!  Ha!  How’s that for a plan?!  Let me know how your challenge is going and I’ll keep you posted about mine!  Have a great week!

Deb