As the sun begins to paint the early morning horizon, my eyes slowly feel the rays of light welcoming a new day. A surge of energy comes over my mind and body, feeling a sense of urgency to accomplish all that is possible within the light of day. My body then reminds me of the weeks I have been chasing this urgent desire to achieve such daunting and long-listed tasks.

I realize my eyes feel heavy, my mind settles for a moment and the idea of falling back into dream land seems only a breath away. In this moment my body happily complies with this opportunity to simply be, relax and take a few more moments. I justify my exhausted response to all that I had completed yesterday and hope this will be enough to set aside the list running in my head.

Lately, my reality is full of these push and pull moments where I recognize the action list is a mile long, while I also see and feel the necessity to surrender to the moments of doing absolutely nothing but shutting down for the time needed to restore my energy. Perhaps the realization of needing to conserve energy is slowing me in the moment, while the summer energy has me going at records speeds.

In all of this, I continually check a pulse of my mind, body and spirit. All three must feel in balance as well as equally rested, activated and fulfilled. When I am out of balance, one or more of these aspects that make up me are over stimulated or exhausted. How easy it can be to over-look and carry on. Perhaps the goal can be accomplished outside of the list; with balance, ease and surrender…