Alone at Christmas

I spent the last few days of Christmas mostly alone.

(Introverts rejoice!)

I celebrated Christmas with family in England a little early this year to avoid travel rush.

So no family gatherings this week, no obligations. Just me, a stack of books and old films I'd been wanting to see, and the cold foggy Warsaw landscape out the window.

I put on films like The Changeling, featuring a creepy mansion, mystery and ghosts. Loved that one.

I also did something I've often struggled to do, which is a whole lot of nothing.

No emails, writing or checking in on my work.

I did some reflecting on the past year and what I'd like to achieve, but that's about it.

I've struggled with stopping because I've always feared losing momentum. I think the engine will stall, and getting it started will be painful.

But I needed the break. I was fatigued. My brain was crying out for a reset.

So, reset I did.

Today, I'm slowly allowing myself to create things again. I braced myself for the heavy resistance I knew I'd feel in writing this email…

But it didn't really appear.

I just wrote, and it didn't feel like I'd left.

I realise now that when people procrastinate and feel the need to escape…

It's not so much because they returned after a break.

It's far more about the meaning we attach to taking a break.

I used to think: "If I stop working, I'll lose momentum. Getting back will be DIFFICULT. I'll have to fight my way back in."

And no wonder things felt difficult. I created that damn reality every time.

But when I stopped attaching all those heavy thoughts to what I was doing, the resistance didn't show up as much anymore. Like today.

I didn't spend today thinking about my work. I just started doing it.

This has become so much easier since I started looking more deeply into the mind and how thoughts work and why I was so anxious all the time.

I learned how thoughts create my reality, and how to stop buying into serious thoughts so much.

I didn't need to shout supportive affirmations about how productive I was to return to productivity.

I just did things.

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Much love,

Alex