In small ways we can make every day a more perfect day just by slowing down and becoming more mindful of the experience we are having in the moment…this is the practice of mindfulness. All too often I find myself caught up in my to-do lists and go through my day forgetting my deep desire to remain mindful. But sometimes I DO remember and I make better choices and when I do the result is a “perfect day.” Last week I had one of those “perfect days” so I wrote this list to remind myself that the choice is always mine. I’m sharing it with you in hopes that your Mother’s Day will be a mindful one.
Today was a perfect day.. Here is what I DIDN’T do:
- Work
- Go to yoga class
- Weed the garden
- Grocery shop
- Send tax documents to my CPA
- Fill out the medical paperwork for my Mother-in-law
- Clean the bathroom
- Check my bank balance
- Look at instagram or facebook
- Call anyone
- Run errands
- Listen to a podcast
- Listen to the radio
- Worry
Here’s what I DID do:
- Watch a lizard scurry across the patio
- Hold my 7 month old granddaughter most of the day because she has a cold and needs it
- Show my 3 year old grandson a HUGE grasshopper on the fence
- Watch a dump truck dump who knows how many cubic yards of dirt on the construction site behind the fence (a huge delight for him)
- Eat delicous homemade vegetable soup
- Serve my grandson tortilla chips with small slices of avacado on them, one by one
- Build lego trains
- Play with rocks
- Sit on the bench under the Camphor tree with the baby watching the koi
- Enjoy all of the amazing flowers in the spring garden
- Feel the breeze on my face
- Marvel at the vibrant colors of the sky, the trees, the garden, the world
- Revel in the sound of the wind chimes
- Listen to the train in the distance
- Watch a helicopter overhead
- Take a shower then afterward watch the water vapor in the room move like an ameoba as I breathed
- Listen
- Write this list
- Feel overwhelming gratitude
It was a very busy day. A perfect day of DOING “nothing.”
Wishing all of you a Beautiful, MINDFUL Mother’s Day!