Taking a break?

# Chapter 120

This past week I have been on the road traveling throughout Eastern Europe and I did not write this daily portion at all, in fact I did not pick up a computer at all while traveling. I did none of my daily practices and systems that I have done for years, while traveling this week. It was a very very intense week that allowed no other tasks to be considered. Thank God that I don’t live like that on any regular basis! It was super exhausting and intense and I was sleep deprived and grumpy as hell. You did not want to hang out with me last week.

But you would think that a full week long break would give me some fresh ideas for writing each morning, that I would enjoy the “rest” of not working out, that the change of pace from my systems that I have followed for over 10 years would breath fresh air into my morning routines when I returned yesterday. Nope. All I did was miss my patterns and systems, but no new energy or ideas or passion or a sense of rest or recovery. I just missed the continuity of doing tasks that are important and that force me to produce some of my best work.

Many times I read that “taking a break” is helpful, and get it that it most likely is just that for many people. But for me, just the steady practice of putting my butt in the chair and not getting up until its finished is the right way, perhaps the only way for me to do this work. “Fresh” isn’t nearly as important as daily in my life. Whats your mileage like on this one?