Stolen Serenity

Overwhelm.

We’ve all felt it.  Feeling stressed and not a clue where to start.  Struggling to hold on to my joy and peace.  Reminding myself to breathe, literally and metaphorically.  Remembering the importance of down time.  Letting the mind rest.  Sometimes being productive means you need to intentionally spend time not being productive.  Turn your brain off and let your mind wander.  Give yourself permission to just be.  Even when you are in grad school, and working full time, and it’s tax season, and your to-do list is a mile long.  And sometimes you need to clean your desk, despite the to-do list, because a decluttered desk leads to a de-cluttered mind, which increases productivity.

So my serenity was not really stolen – it is my choice whether to hold on to it.  No one can take it away from me.  I had let it slip away.  Cleaning my desk helped.  A few evenings and lunch hours of ‘wasted time’ were the cure.  I gave myself permission to accomplish nothing of an evening and it gave me the margin I needed.  Rest is key to maintaining serenity.

 

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Author: serena

Currently living outside Providence, working full time in higher education, and pursuing doctoral studies in Organizational Leadership.

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