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Own Your Day With Mind – Focus – Me!

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How can we use mindfulness to own our day?  MIND – FOCUS – ME

1. MIND – first thing in the morning we need to do something to get our mind right. BEFORE checking email. Before reading texts. Before anything! It could be prayer, meditation, stretching, visualizing, setting an intention for the day, having coffee quietly or even just sitting outside. Something that makes you feel good to get the day going on the right path. Then, when we go to check the emails or texts our mind is already in a good place and can we can react better.


2. FOCUS – we need to determine our non negotiable 1-3 items that absolutely must get done that day and when we will set aside “focus time” that day to get them done. Again, non negotiable. When will you set aside all distractions and only focus on those 1-3 things until they are completed? We can’t spend the entire day without distraction, but we can set aside a couple of hours in our day if we are honest with ourselves and let others know when we are available for interruptions outside of those hours.  That may mean no cell phone or email during that time!  We WILL SURVIVE, I promise!


3. ME – we need to pick something every single day for “me time” to take care of ourselves and increase our TRIESSENCE, which is taking care of ourselves physically, mentally and spiritually. Just one little thing a day in one of those areas is wonderful and if we pick an area we typically don’t tend to focus on it will help us find our own unique perfect balance until our TRIESSENCE grows and that’s when we find the sweet reward of finding more joy, fulfilling relationships, success and love than we ever thought possible. The cool thing is you can mix it up the next day so you won’t get tired of trying to form some new habit because you can be as creative as you want and keep changing it up, but the bonus is in doing that it WILL become a habit! That is, taking care of YOU.

That is being mindful. That is owning your day. That is work/life balance.  

MIND. FOCUS. ME.

Would you be willing to give it a go?  If not, what is holding you back?  You are worth it! You deserve it!  Your body, mind, spirit and productivity will thank you for it 🙂

Hope you have a safe and wonderful holiday!  Happy 4th of July!

Tessa Todd Morgan

Taking A Break Is A Choice

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A few months ago, I wrote a blog about knowing when to take a break and that I’m not always that great at knowing when I need one or allowing myself to do so.  I also made a commitment that I would be willing to do this in the future and that is what I am doing today and have been doing the past few days.

Taking a break is a choice and not always an easy one to make, but sometimes it’s the best one for us.

I haven’t been feeling well the past few days and have allowed myself to take a break and stay in bed and do nothing.  Knowing today is the day I typically post a blog, it has been hard for me to let it go and decide that I am choosing to take a break instead.  My body, mind and spirit all are calling for rest and relaxation.

So, yes, I still posted something and didn’t completely stay off the computer, but I’m taking baby steps here and this is still taking a lot less time and energy than it normally would.

Hoping you all had a safe and Happy New Year and I hope that you all can see when you need to take a break and will be willing to give yourself that gift as well in the future.