ONE APPLE A DAY #594 - a clean start
I took a few days off from this little project of mine. Even more, I paused the whole morning routine for a week.
No exercise, no meditation and no writing.
I understood that it was necessary after writing the previous daily apple last Monday. At the end of my fifteen minutes writing process, I was spent. I had to push the words out instead of letting them flow, and that depleted my energy. I'm not sure when it started, but it wasn't energising anymore.
I needed to rest. So I put the morning writing on hold.
And with it everything else.
In fact, this recovery pause made me realise that this tiredness was affecting everything in my life.
My to-do list was crushing me. I had things in it that I've been postponing for weeks, some even for months.
And they were hunting me, pushing me to keep doing stuff even if my energy was gone and I wasn't really able to take any step further.
So, I did something a bit crazy.
I didn't just pause the to-do list, I wiped it clean. I deleted all the things to do that I wasn't doing. I thought that if they were still there after weeks than the key to making that happen surely was not that busy do-do list.
So, I cleaned it.
And you know what. The day after I cleaned my to-do list, I completed one of the tasks that I've been dragging for months.
Maybe it's a coincidence, but I think it's not.
Sometimes we put so much weight on things that we aren't unable to move them forward. The moment we give up, we lift that weight and voilá, the magic happens.