I regularly set the intention that this week, I’ll do yoga.

Only to get to the end of the week without practicing.

 

To help with follow-through, I’ve started putting it on my calendar. In fact, I’ve been scheduling a lot lately: writing tasks, client design work, personal to-dos, even lunch.

 

But this hasn’t led to more yoga.

I have a bad habit of adding it to my calendar… only to disregard it when the time comes. Something else always feels more important — “work” tends to win by default.

 

Yoga is similar to artmaking: I know I enjoy it when I do it, and I always feel better afterward. It’s the starting — the choosing to give it time — that’s hard.

 

Last week, though, I committed to the plan I set for myself.

Wednesday morning rolled around, and after dropping the kids off, I rolled out my mat before heading to the computer.

 

Thirty minutes later — after a practice themed on returning to my power — I began my workday feeling grounded and awake.

 

But after lunch, the effects of not sleeping well the night before started to hit. A quiet voice said, “take a nap.”

 

I resisted at first. The old pattern to push through wanted to lead as I thought about how I’d already taken time out of my day to do something for myself. 

 

Surely I didn’t need more rest. 

 

Then, I paused long enough to listen to what I really needed: Rest was the clear answer.

 

So I put my phone on silent and crawled under the covers. When I woke up an hour later, I felt groggy, unsure if it had helped at all. I returned to my computer to finish a few work items before picking up my girls, and called my work day complete.

Then something interesting happened.

 

More and more, my girls can fill their after-school time without much need for me, which leaves this small, in-between space before dinner — too early to start cooking, too late to dive back into work.

 

Rested, with bonus time ahead of me, I sat on the couch and opened my computer to explore an idea I’d been holding. Before I knew it, I’d drafted an outline for a three-part email series! Words flowed easily, and I found myself stealing little pockets of time the rest of the evening just to keep writing.

 

That’s when I noticed the real magic: I was being rewarded for giving myself the restoration I needed.

 

Yoga and napping hadn’t taken away from my day — they added to it.

This isn’t the kind of work I can plan or schedule. It’s flow work — the kind that only shows up when I’m calm, centered, and clear.

 

Calm, centered, and clear may be my natural state — but modern life pulls me away from it. So I have to make returning to it a practice.

 

 

And when I notice the result — the quiet reward that follows — I rewire my brain’s story about rest, about yoga, about how creativity really works.

 

So the next time I see yoga on my calendar, I can confidently choose it over work.

Because I know inspiration is already on its way.

 

 

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