Hello, everyone!

I've always longed for free time - you know, time to do whatever I want. Time to work on my book, write the next business plan, knit a new scarf, learn to play the guitar, hang out with friends, take a nap, read a book, write in the journal, the list goes on ... I imagine you may have a list, too.

Year after year, when the free time would come, I'd either be paralyzed with deciding which thing to do OR I'd be doing one thing and thinking about how I never had enough time to do ALL the things I wanted.

Last week I reflected on how much free time I feel I have lately and realized something ... it's not that I actually have more free time, it's that my perspective on how I view my time has changed.

I live with a greater sense of presence for right now - I think less about what I could be doing or heaven forbid should be doing, and I really lock into whatever is happening in each present moment.

No matter what we're doing, there's always something else we could be doing instead. There's always going to be the next project or something to do.

As we continue moving towards this season of slowing down (when the world often demands we speed up), I invite you to allow yourself to just be where you are right now, without the need or expectation that you should be doing anything else.

Here is your permission slip -

✨ Let your free time be free

✨ Doing "nothing" is doing something

✨ Whatever you're doing right now is enough

✨ Your future free time is another expectation waiting to happen - you can release it.

Wishing you the joy of presence and the gift of knowing you're right where you're supposed to be, there's nothing else to do to prove it.

Until next week,

Leslie