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Maintaining a Practice in Challenging Times
Be kind to yourself.
I thought I was going to write four books this year.
(I’ll wait, so you can finish laughing hysterically, while also crying.) (Or is that just me?)
I had a plan and everything, a system, a schedule. I made a big cheerful public commitment about it, and recruited a team of folks to write with me. We would check in with each other, cheer each other on, share our word counts and triumphs and challenges.
Ha.
I was also exercising regularly, when 2020 started. I belonged to a gym. Remember gyms? I swam three times a week, and played racquetball with a friend twice a week. Racquetball! An hour running around and sweating inside an airtight box with another sweaty person.
Good times.
Our local gym has closed down for good now, and the owners have put the business up for sale. Though I can’t imagine anyone investing in a health club right now.
When the pandemic hit, things were of course hard and scary and confusing, but I, along with so many others, took all this positive productive energy and redirected it. We baked bread, ordered dried beans, read all the news about how to stay safe. Stocked up on toilet paper, hand sanitizer, latex gloves. Came up with…
