Monday Home Coming

I got home late yesterday afternoon, after a whole week away, and this morning I am reveling in all the normalcy of home: Waking in my own bed, making my favorite coffee, and sitting at my desk to write. It seems like I have a lot of catching up to do, but really I just need to pick up the threads where I left them.

Monday is my day to reset for the week and get my ducks in a row - make some plans for health and home, and how I will step up for the Natural Living Challenge. This waxing gibbous moon is a time for a pause to consider my patterns and approaches, a time to review and refine, a time to practice Being and trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. 

Agenda:

1. Read "How to Keep House While Drowning"

2. Giving Each Thing a Home

3. New food habits

Sabbath for Vision

Sunday is my day to be quiet (at least for a while), with the spirit, in contemplation and prayer, and in community with nature and other bipeds.

Today I will be on the road most of the day, so I will have time for contemplation and not much action. The sabbath is a celebration, a holiday - As I sit in the car, I will keep it holy with my attitude: no complaining, or worrying.

We are in the Waxing Gibbous moon phase, when I can settle again into the yin of Beingness. Now is a time to reconsider my intentions and make adjustments. I will consider the big picture of my life as I practice mindfulness, self-care and trust.

Agenda:

1. Read "Your Heart Was Made for This"

2. Creative visualization

3. Expressing Needs in the World

Aspiration

Wednesday is my day to re-group and re-define my week. First I make a plan for getting over the bump of the mid-week (not an issue this week because I've had an extended weekend!), then I re-envision my emotional tone and perspective.

Agenda today:

1. My plan for annual session mental health

2. Read "Your Heart Was Made for This"

3. Mission haiku

First Quarter Moon of July

Tuesday is my day to look at my social and emotional self, and make an effort to shift my perspectives around how I view and treat the people in my life.

And tonight is also the First Quarter Moon; we are one-quarter of the way through the moon cycle. The moon is waxing - getting larger - until it's full again. Now is the time to remain flexible, use my obstacles as fuel for growth, and show full effort for priorities. The First Quarter is yang, a time to take decisive and smart action on my intentions; during the yin of the crescent moon, I got clarity and made a plans - now it is time to act on those plans. 

I use this July quarter moon's energy to discern my Truth and then act on it; this requires some discipline.

Agenda: 

1. Read "How to Deal with Anger"

2. Review my purpose

3. Review my priorities

4. Discern a way forward

5. Depth of purpose rituals

6. Make a full effort plan

Attention to Health Care

Monday is my day to reset for the week and

 get my ducks in a row - make some plans for health and home, and how I will step up for the Natural Living Challenge.

Since I'm out-of-town, I'll focus on health care today. And because I'm in the yin time of the waxing crescent moon, I'll take time to discern and create clarity. 

Agenda:

1. Read "How to Keep House While Drowning"

2. My health care priorities

3. Depth of purpose rituals

4. Create clarity

Sabbath for Attention

Sunday is my day to be quiet (at least for a while), with the spirit, in contemplation and prayer, and in community with nature and other bipeds.

The sabbath is a celebration, a holiday. I keep it holy with my attitude: I don't rush, complain, or worry. Everything I do has a flavor of peace. I schedule some work, but it's work I find fulfilling, or uplifting. Simple is a great word to describe my ideal activities for the sabbath: Simple tasks, simple foods, and an undemanding schedule.

And then - on the road again!

Agenda:

1. Read "Your Heart Was Made for This"

2. Journal challenges and needs

3. Nurturing my intentions

4. Expressing Needs in the World