It's February...............

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

~ Deepak Chopra

Yes,it's February.

February 2nd to be exact.

And yes ,it has been almost 2 weeks since I have written anything.

January may have been the single least productive month in terms of writing since I started this practice 5 and 1/2 years ago.

This is not a good thing for me.

While sitting at the airport on the way home from the Halloween Industry trade show, my brother commented to a customer of his,"yeah.....my brother writes almost every day....I just don't know how he has that much extra time!"

The answer is,I don't.

There is no EXTRA in time.

There are those same 60 minutes in each of the 24 hours in every one of the 7 days in each week.

Finding 1 hour each and every day to write would probably be something I could accomplish.

Skip a meal .

Sleep a little bit less.

Grab 15 minutes here and there.

Finding the hour that it may take for me to write is not the challenge.

The real challenge is re-creating the space that allows my thoughts and my writing to come together.

I am, as we all are, a creature of habits and comforts.

I write at my desk,on my desktop computer usually in the morning, before the happenings of the day has had time to completely overwhelm my thoughts.

When I do not write, it's not that it's not important to me.

Quite the contrary.

When I do not write,you can bet that I am experiencing abnormal levels of stress,starting early in my day and continuing until bedtime when I collapse from exhaustion,more mental than physical.

So the answer to my brother's comment of "how do I find the time to write?" is "how do I not?"

Writing is my life preserver.

Writing is my energizer.

Writing is my release.

Writing keeps me grounded.

Writing connects me to you.

Writing brings clarity to my world

Not writing isolates me.

Not writing adds stress to my life.

Not writing drains me.

Not writing adds to the tumult.

Not writing makes me anxious.

January is now over.

My desk calendar reminds me that February is now here.

There is a clean new page greeting me when I sit down daily.

With a little bit of luck and a bit more effort,I can hopefully find that time and space that has eluded me for the last few weeks.

Writing to you is important to my well being.

Shabbat Shalom!