I’m reflecting this morning on what happens when your world gets turned upside down. Mine got turned upside down last week when I was the victim of a very upsetting hack on my computer. Suffice it to say that I was so alarmed by the whole thing that I called the number popping up on my screen. Sigh. I then let someone into my computer for 30 minutes – through software – before I realized that I was being hacked. Anyway, the point as it relates here is that I have been without my laptop for five days, and it was extremely disturbing and my whole world got turned upside down, but I have trained myself to sit back and say, okay, what can I do with this? Basically, making lemonade out of lemons.

I decided when this happened that I was going to spend the weekend filling myself with inspiration in any form that I could find. I have fallen into this whole podcasting thing. It’s completely new for me. It’s taking up a lot of my time and energy, in a really good way. It’s fun. Yet it’s important to balance out the external focus. This weekend I was reminded that I’m filling my head up with all of this stuff out there, learning and groups and social media, all of these things that are new to me, and it was time to fill my own tank. When I say fill my own tank, I don’t mean sleep and rest. I excel at that. I find as I’m aging that sleep and rest is critically important to how I move in the world.

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