Me Time ✨

Happy Sunday, everybody. Hello, Rick. How you doing today? Hopefully you guys are having a nice Sunday. If you are dialing in today, whether you're on replay or you are live, my invitation to you is to type in the chat. One thing that's bringing you joy today, it could be something as simple as I pet the cat, took the dog for a walk, could be anything. You decide. So for me, for those of you that are new to me, my name is Jean. I'm really excited to be here. Something that's bringing me joy Today I am in Nashville, and I am staying with my two close friends, closest friends.

And I got to just wake up and have yogurt with them and just talk about life and see them. So I feel very excited about that. See Kim. Happy Sunday. All sunshine. Bringing me joy. Great. I love that. So today on me time, I just wanted to put it out here. A few things and things that I think I'm going through, and I wanted to just share. So on today. Today is going to be a very reflective day for me. Speak, wonder says joy. Source Hearing migrating geese honking overhead. I love that. Thank you. So today I'm gonna just focus in on reflecting a little reflection time.

So I'm about to head out on a long run in a new space. I don't know where I'm running to, but I know I have a start and an end. And I wasn't gonna run today. I have to do a long run for training. I was going to wait until tomorrow, and the weather was just a little bit nicer. But I'm a little bit in headspace today, having stories that I keep telling myself about where I may or may not be enough. And so I decided that I was gonna go for this run because I know when I run, it allows my system to clear out, allows my head to clear out.

And it's a space that I can be in where I can do some reflection. I can feel into my body, I can feel into my thoughts and really just find some calm. And my question that I'm gonna ask, second question of the morning is, is I'd love to hear in the chat for you when you're doing your reflection or when you need to find space or time to clear your head, what do you do? And you don't have to answer the second question, but do we do that often enough? So I have been in a little heady lately. I've been in this space where I'm training for these marathons, and it's a constant, like me saying, no to some things, to say yes, to go training.

And it's a choice I've made to fuel my body, fuel my soul, to do some healing through running and these marathons, seeing different spaces. But along the way, you give up things, right? You make some choices, you give up some things. Things that I might have given up is time with family or friends because I need to go do a run and spend two or three hours out there ponding pavement. And then when I get back, I'm hungry and or tired in certain other things. So where is that space for you? Where do you find that you take the time to do reflection and really do a check in with where you're at emotionally, physically, energetically?

I will be very honest. I am a doer. That's how I get through most things. I love doing races, I love doing competitions. But I also find that anytime somebody needs me, I will drop everything and I will go be there for them. And sometimes I do that even when I don't necessarily take the time for my own self to process other things or show up for myself to heal. But I'll dang well get on a flight, get on a plane and I will do that for everybody that I love, hands down, bar none. I do it for anybody that works with me or for me.

I do it for all my friends. It's just kind of my mentality. It's been who I've always been. It's been a part of my identity. And so right now I'm really working hard to reframe that a little bit to see how am I showing up for myself and almost inserting myself into a third person. Does that relate to you? Do you find that it's so much easier to give out to everybody else around you than it is to pause and heal within? And if so, why do we think that is? I'd love to hear your conversation around this and if that resonates for you.

So today I'm gonna do an invitation to all of us, myself included in my backpack. I packed up to come on this trip. I posted or I added a little notebook. And on that little notebook I brought it just because I want to spend time writing. Speak, Wonder. You're a great writer. Letting a car pass. You write poetry. Your poetry is beautiful and magical. But for me, I'm going to take time to do reflection, take time to pause, take time to process my thoughts. So I'm gonna go do this run first and then I'm gonna come back and write a little bit and really see where I'm at because what I'm finding and what I'm feeling is that I have been using a series of marathons and all this training as kind of my way to grieve my mom and dad.

But along the way, I feel like I've missed part of the point. I've missed the part where I take the time to reflect because I've been so busy doing, so busy moving, that I haven't been taking the time to pause. Does that resonate with any of you? Do you feel the same? How do you find your pause? So I'm just going to leave you with that for today. I'm going to head out on my run. I'm here tomorrow for some personal development, professional development, 9:00am Central Time. So I hope to see you then.

Have the best day. Take time to write.