WCML 116: Peaceful Productivity 1: Peaceful Self-Care

Pace Smith

Productivity? Better beware.
I’ll compare, which will lead to despair.
Instead of this struggle,
How ’bout a nice snuggle?
Let’s start off with peaceful self-care.

• making peace with productivity
  • “I am hard on myself when I feel unproductive.” survey question. half the class agreed and the other half… strongly agreed.
  • tapes
  • rewriting tapes. you can’t erase them.
    • “I get more done in one hour when I’m well-rested than I get done in eight hours of pushing through.”
    • “I would rather be a peaceful failure than a stressed-out success.”
    • “Taking care of myself is important, valuable, and necessary.”
    • “I’m worthy of love for who I am, not for what I do.”
• self-trust
  • we are heart people in a brain world
  • Help Wanted story
• structure
  • resistance to structure, like “you have to go to bed now” as a kid
  • I used to think “structure meant a lack of freedom”
  • structure = “I have to get up at 8am” but it doesn’t have to be like that. It can be semi-flexible
• acceptance and compassion. whatever you choose, even if it’s not the productive option, choose it wholeheartedly
• resisting the things that are the most important – it’s actually a good sign
• Spiritual practice is the magic bullet for maintaining peace.
• Rest and play
• Give yourself permission to be where you are and take care of yourself
• Spaciousness inside out. Heart first, calendar second.
• Stay-at-home retreat
• Even a little time is enough to be kind to yourself
• Put your own oxygen mask on first. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” -Jack Kornfield
• capacity management – schedule recovery days, don’t oversocial yourself before a big social thing
• What even is self-care? How to know what is effective self-care for yourself.

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