Book reading. It's not an issue of time, rather an issue of intention.

You do have time to read books.

I thought I didn't too. But then I realized how much time I spent mindlessly scrolling social media or playing candy crush and realized it was not an issue of time, rather an issue of intention. Check your priorities, yo. How you spend your now is how you spend your life. How much of each day do you spend on social media? And in what ways does it enrich your life? What if you spent that time reading a book? Perhaps one of the ones I recommend in my little bloggy list over there? That shit can be life changing. Just see what resonates. You never know.

When I have five minutes to decompress in the other room while my kids play nicely together in a tablecloth fort, I grab a book. When I sit down to snuggle and nurse my toddler while she wakes after her nap, I grab a book. When I'm sitting outside watching my kids play, I grab a book. When I'm watching my kids play in the bathtub, I grab a book. When I'm trying to sleep in on a Saturday morning but good ol' insomnia (Does it count if it's in the morning? It's the exact same mind bullshit, just with the sun up so I have my t-shit over my face.) ...and I digress. But you get the picture. I didn't actually grab a book this morning, I grabbed my journal and started relistening to and taking notes on this doozy of a podcast interview with Deepak Chopra on finding your dharma. So many nuggets of wisdom. Did you realize that Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and The Chakra System mirror each other? Mind. Blown.

Back to the subject of this post. I fucking love books. And I prefer a good ol' fashioned physical book where I can highlight and underline and turn down page corners. I love having a shelf of books which I know intimately. I can walk over, grab a specific book, randomly flip until I find highlighter, and soak up some inspirational ass shit right then and there. This correlates with my delve into spirituality and anxiety and living my best life. (But not in the blogger hashtag way. Obvy.) I also copy stuff that resonates deeply into my journal and then draw a big square around it so I can flip through all my ramblings and find aligning little quotes quickly. Sometimes that's all I need, three minutes outside with the trees and the birdies and a quick journal flip for quotes. The ones I need will jump out to me. Then a child will start crying and I take a deep breath and go back inside a little more patient and present...

And I leave you with a nugget from my morning journaling and intention setting with Mr. Chopra:

"It's all a journey. There is no arrival."