Since we are starting a new year, it was time for me to buy my annual date book. Now this is a book I put a lot of time and research into selecting, since I’ll be writing in her all year.
I know, many of you use your phones for scheduling, but I am a yogi! I find something so cathartic about writing it down, and checking it off once it’s completed! Oh the joy!
This year I had told myself I want a book with the whole month laid out in front of me so I can finally see ahead! I had visited numerous books stores many times waiting for the perfect one. But the universe had other plans.
I get to my favorite cozy book shop, I head to the section of 2015 planners, and low and behold, there was only one book left! Not the size I wanted…not the layout I wanted…not anything that I wanted. But was New Years eve! My new life was starting tomorrow! I was out of time! I had to buy it. I was. So. Upset.
This particular book, was a day calendar. Day. By. Day. Hour. By. Hour. And as soon as I opened it, I HATED it. I felt exposed. “What if someone looks at me writing something down and sees how much free time I have?” I angrily and embarrassingly muttered to myself. Suddenly, I had an epiphany! Why not fill up every hour! Surely there is much to do in day! And this miraculous little book opened my eyes to see that. Suddenly, I was booked solid from my new book!
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”
So here it is, my schedule for today:
8 am: Wake up, eat breakfast. Release blog.
9am: Leave to assist yoga class at Yogaworks in Larchmont
10am-11:30: Assist class
12:00: Teach client
1:30: Eat salad!
3:00-4:00: Guided meditation at Bellmont Village Seniors Home
5:00: Eat fish and brown rice!
7:00: Do my own yoga practice
8:00: Tidy music studio.
9:00: Write next article
10:00: Bed!