A Very Unproductive Kind of Day

(3.5 inches so far this morning and it's still coming down, school is cancelled...snowday!)

One day last week, I drug myself out of bed at my usual 5:30 a.m., made the coffee and sat down to do my morning quiet time.   I was unable to focus on my task at hand and wrote down on the paper in big block letters...
 
What’s Wrong With ME!
 
I ditched my quiet time and began making a list of all of the things I felt I needed to get done – things like order two yards of topsoil and compost for the new garden beds. Clean the wooden blinds on our windows. Organize the garage. Renew my gym membership. Paint the living room.
 
No wonder I couldn’t focus on my study.  I had too many things weighing down on me, things that I felt I should be doing but hadn’t gotten around to yet.  
 
But lately all I want to do is make a cup of tea to hold in my hands, curl up with a good book, put in a movie or snuggle with my boys.  

Where has my motivation been lately?  Why can’t I get everything done?  I began to beat myself up for feeling so unproductive.

Later that morning, I found myself sitting in the car- engine still running- listening to a radio program. The radio host was talking to a man named Dr. John Sharp who had just released a book titled The Emotional Calendar.  But it wasn’t Dr. Sharp’s words that got me thinking, although I did end up getting a copy of his book.  It was one of the callers.

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