🕑A TimeLord's De-Stress Strategy - SPOILER: It's all about PERSPECTIVE

April 26, 2018dayleeo

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Gooooooood Morning Steemit. Lol it’s late. I’m not going to lie. For me anyway. I’m WAY behind my usual schedule but you know what- that’s freaking OK.

I don’t have a “boss” I need to duck or avoid for being late, and all that stuff that just feels SO urgent at the moment, really isn’t.

Do you have a morning activator song? Here’s mine, at the moment. Who knew a pan flute could SLAY like that…!!?

If I think back to all the times I was really stressed over delivering to a client, or felt like I was under the most stressful time crunch and take a moment to reflect now in the present day, it REALLY wasn’t THAT big of a deal.

Now before I go any further - I am not talking about apathy or laziness here. I have HUGE respect for folks who are up early and absolutely smash it before most people even arrive at their desks. Every day I fight to be one of those people, but some mornings, I need that extra little bit of sleep- or a slightly longer yoga to stretch my achy muscles. Sometimes I’m just a bit slower to get into the day. The thing about taking your time in the morning, is that all of its relaxing and luxurious benefits are completely thrashed when you beat yourself up about it.

today I decided to make a face mask of turmeric, honey and lemon juice, and slap it on my face, before I looked at a single email- I know- rebel right??

So here I am explaining to you (and let’s face it, myself) that is really is OK.

Every time I’ve “failed” to meet my own time expectations, things still seemed to work themselves out. That project, that client, that obligation can almost always wait. And since I claim to be a TimeLord, my strategy is to travel to my future state of mind who fully knows how silly my stress is, and borrow some of her peace, and confidence about the situation.

I know a lot of my solutions to things involve time travel, but once you get the hang of allowing yourself to have your own future perspective in the NOW, you don’t have to keep saying “welp- hindsight is 20/20”. Now becomes 20/20- here borrow my glasses.

Got em on?

Imagine how your 90 year old self will think about this day. The stress you keep cycling over and over, that person who’s irritating you at work, that family member - whoever and whatever, sure they may be concerned, or thoughtful about it. But the immediacy of the moment is gone. Because when you’re 90 one year isn't anything more than 1/90th of your life.

What Im saying is, even if you’re having a crappy day, or an awful week- this week represents SUCH a tiny piece of your story that you may not even remember it later in life- and even if you do, it may seem so trivial that you might even laugh.

So let’s time travel to that state when we don't feel stressed about today, let’s move that perspective into the right frame of focus, and borrow the glasses that our 90 year old selves are wearing sometime in the future, cruising in Lambos and doing backflips with our cyborg bodies.

Hell. Yes.

OK that’s my morning brain dump for you- it’s a STUNNING day today here in NJ, and I’m looking forward to taking a nice warm walk to the farmers market later in the sun. But first we WERK. Who’s with me?!

Also, here's a photo of a Yak who DEFINITELY doesn't give a damn about what time he woke up to much on grass. Let's just be like this Yak. Ok?