The Coffee Shoulds
“Stop shoulding on yourself.”
Perhaps you’ve heard this little pun which reminds us that spending time regretting inaction, worrying about missed opportunities, and steeping in regret will end up a stinky mess.
So, just in case you need something more concrete, here is my stinky mess from February:
I should have:
shared my co-rise announcement (starts 3/11 bc it’s week 11 and that makes a kind of 11/11)
started my Book of Sundays project (been trying to get this underway for over a year--why??)
shared this blog link https://optimisticmusings.com/category/year-of-shmita/ which has inspired me to learn to treat Sundays as rest days
written a blog post about Feb 29 & Leap Day (24 extra hours this year/4min a day--what will you do with this time?)
written a blog post about consolidating notebooks (fragmentation/not allowing connections/avoiding recording bc just don’t have the right notebook OR record and forgot where I wrote info down)
written a blog post about starting a yoga training course (not teacher training) and doing headstands (which I am very close to having done).
written a blog post about Lent (perhaps started a series of some sort)/phone phast (ha--so clever)
written a blog post about my WOTY (Allow)
written a blog post about Feb’s 13HN metaphor (Garnet/self-acceptance) & reflection (March is snake=rejecting poison)
written a blog post about the third new year of 2024 (Jan 1--obvs/Feb 10--lunar new year/March 19--astrological new year & first day of spring. It makes way more sense to start a new year in spring than in the dead of winter).
written a blog post about my rest project inspired by the above blog (Shmita) post, this article (wash post) and this article (NYT)
written a poem about something (but I am not supposed to say about--on the occasion of something)
discussed ANY of the new books I bought in the last few months (and a few I even read).
But instead, I chose not to allow myself the time to do any of this. Instead, I only thought about writing these posts or perhaps I even got as far as taking notes on ideas for these. But where did I put those notes?
Now that I have this pile of should in front of me, I need to start shoveling. Or, to extend the metaphor into the season, this March I’m using all this should to fertilize a garden of…done?
