May was a busy month with a lot of commitments, a lot of social time and a lot of rushing around. By the end of the month, I felt really burned out and needed large amounts of quiet time. I took what I needed to ensure I could rebuild my energy.
This months intention was to Deep Joys: Take some time. Be still. Listen to the whispers of your soul. Hug your people. Dig deep and see what brings you deep joy.
I definitely hugged my people and spent a bunch of time being still. I had a few days of complete alone time though I didn’t spend a lot of time digging deep. But that’s ok. I spent time with my parents. I went to Boston and I did a lot of painting.
Here are some goals I had for May:
- continue to draw daily – finish out the 100-day project – Done
- Go back to nourish plans/list – or at least make progress – didn’t really do this I’d say
- do most of of HCOTF – also did a poor job with this in May, there was too much going on
- Jeff’s graduation in Boston – did this
- Parents here – spent a lot of time with my parents
- Support J – spent a lot of time on this, too.
- celebrate Nathaniel’s birthday party – yep was lovely.
- connect with at least 6 friends – connected with a lot of people in May
- help D and N – done
- journal – daily!
- Continue documenting the joy – daily too!
- Love my people – loved my people so so hard.
- read more, still. – i really upped my reading game in may
- Scrap and OLW – i did some of this but not a lot tbh
- Go climbing – here, too, some but not a lot lot.
- dive deeper into ease, release, equanimity, space, possibility and see what you might want to do for each. – didn’t do this one.
- figure out linode and cloud stuff for email. – i did the cloud stuff but not linode
- take care of karenika email – done
- find a class to take – done, i took a may challenge and signed up for 5 things.
- work on a daily practice of giving yourself grace – likely would get a B- on this one but working on it.
- Be ok with not getting much done, rest. – i tried to do this especially at the end of the month.
May was relatively hard for me, too. I spent a lot of time with my parents, traveled to Boston, and then socialized a lot. I was very tired and worn out about two thirds of the way and gave myself a lot of grace. It was supposed to be one of my two off months and I think it was more hectic than I would have liked. But I took some hard steps. I started taking care of myself. Doing what’s needed and I am proud of myself. I am letting myself rest.
I will continue to try take it each one day at a time and look for the joy again and again. Because I know that joy is possible in each and every moment.
Here’s to hoping June is full of joy.
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