Last year Gretchen Rubin‘s challenge for her podcast listeners was to #rest22in2022.
Here’s my introductory post and how I thought it would go… and then here’s where I was assessing things after the first quarter. When I read those two posts I realise that 1) I really tried to be intentional about it and 2) keep evaluating what was working and what wasn’t.
Still, it was my worst project to date 😉 and I gave up on it properly during the first week of May. For the rest of the year, I used the tracker to track my workouts so that I didn’t waste the paper!
Why was it so hard for me? Surely, as an upholder, I should have just scheduled my rest and got on with it.
Well, one of my coaching clients pointed something out to me – the idea of rest was too nebulous for me. Exactly right! I couldn’t quite get a handle on what it looked like for me and, if you’ve come on the Four Tendencies course/ had a coaching session with me, you know that upholders need clarity.
I didn’t have clarity.
When I decided to finally abandon the project, I told myself that I am sleeping well, I read daily and I do enough “restful” activities like spending time taking photos, connecting with friends, etc. and that will just have to do for rest. But no more tracking.
And so I could release the idea of doing #rest22in2022.
Tell me, because I know many of you are experts at resting, how did the year of rest work for you?
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