When you travel, bring along a special object that helps you to center yourself. It could be something as straightforward as a tea cup that you love, a travel pillow that softens the hard school floor or a magazine you like to read. For whatever reason, the New Yorker magazine makes me feel happy. I love to read it.
The specific examples Shelly gave were very in-tune with who I am, and therefore I packed a bag of tea, a cup, and a pillow.
Rather than being blessed by such soothing, centering objects from home, I ended up deprived of all travel luxuries on this particular trip. That's right. Era Aviation, made famous by the TV show Flying Wild Alaska, for some reason decided to bump all luggage from our flight. And from the next flight. And thanks to a blizzard that has now set in, I am likely to receive no luggage today as there have yet to be any flights. It is quite likely that I'll be stranded here.
No sleeping bag. No pillow. No food. No toothbrush. No clothing. Thank goodness for kind teachers who fed me and supplied me with a blanket.
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Katie and I seem to be on a very similar pattern of realizations and lessons learned. Just this morning, I picked my computer up and found myself swamped by responding to work emails, stumbling on stumbled upon, and reading the news on CNN all at once. Not so relaxing, I must say. Right then and there, I decided to stop using computers in the morning and to focus on exercise and or reading real books or magazines. The computer only promotes work or a waste of time. It has no place in my mornings!
Another lesson I learned today was that 6:00 am isn't necessary in reaching my morning person goal. Here in KPN, I have a little more time before the start of my work day. Even though I slept till 7:00, I had an hour and a half of relaxed time, drinking coffee and reading the New Yorker, which I happened to find laying around in a pile of bathroom literature. It was still plenty of morning time and was worth the 1 extra hour of sleep.
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NEW RULES (for me):
- Ensure that I go to bed 7-8 hours prior to my desired wake up time
- Wake up time can flex, dependent upon my work day's start, allowing myself at least 1 1/2 hour of morning time
- No computers in my morning!
- Never get on a plane unless I see my bag is there
- Carry my toothbrush and sleeping bag on me at all times, in case the previous rule is broken
Sorry to hear about your luggage. Sadly, in the villages without your box of wine, you cannot rely on your wine-bladder pillow solution!
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