Hi from the floor

Hi! floor

From the actual floor of my living room. Like you probably do, I had plenty of things to get done this week. I’m taking vacation starting Friday afternoon – the first time I’m going away with all four of my sons in a bunch of years – and there are lots of things to check off the list before then. Until this morning.

This morning my back said “lie down.” It didn’t yell (though I did), it spoke quietly and with a solidly spasmed lumbar strain. “No standing, no sitting upright for you,” it stated quite clearly.

This all reminded me that all those things we have to do? We can find a way around most of them, delegate or ask someone dear to us to help with the others and shift priorities on a dime!

I recently made a video asking folks to stop saying “have to” about tasks they were going to do. My reasoning was about the advantages of building resilience through changing yournarrative to a “get to” and therefore improving your brain chemicals about that task. If that was too many words, watch it here. 

Another advantage – that I’m thinking about while I contemplate my dog-hair strewn rug from very close up – to changing “have to” to “get to” is this: When you can’t do the thing, you will feel less like you’ve failed, less like you’re somehow in danger. 

Just a little voice-to-text dictated, edited by my amazing assistant Carlota, contemplation for you in this very crowded week.

What do you get to do this week?

All my best,

Dr. G

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