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Finishing Soft and Continuing Soft – Christine and the ongoing plan

Christine Hennebury

As I write this, I am sitting on my bed on Christmas night. The last 24 hours have been a flurry of activity and I’m tired. BUT I am not worn out because the weeks leading up to now were soft instead of hectic.

I don’t mean to suggest that every day was an oasis of calm relaxation – I had plenty of busy days in there – but I did operate from a softness plan.

Whenever possible, I made my decisions based on how I wanted to feel and I chose rest way more often than I usually would have.

And, instead of pushing to finish things, I sought ways to pause them. I wasn’t always successful but I did pretty well.

And I did a bit of work to figure out what times made my usual tasks feel easiest, so they were less like chores and more part of the flow of my day.

I know I have celebrated many of these things over the past few weeks of finishing soft but I am coming back to them again because I have come to a realization…

I want to continue soft.

I don’t know what that looks like but all I know so far is that I like this feeling and I want to keep inviting it into my life.

It may be trickier to continue soft than it was to finish soft but I am pretty damn determined so I will figure it out.

A row of house a with holiday lights on some of them, in one front yard, a tree resembles the neck and head of a giraffe.
I took this photo on my way to my car from a Christmas Eve party. I was deliberately strolling back to my car instead of hurrying and my reward was noticing that the lights on that tree at the centre look kind of like a giraffe’s head and neck are sticking out of the ground and looking at the house. Image description: an evening photo taken across the street and down an incline toward a row of joined houses. Several houses are decorated with holiday lights and one house has a deciduous tree in front. As I mentioned above, the lights on that tree look a bit like the head and neck of a giraffe sticking out of the ground.

Published by Christine Hennebury

I'm a writer/storyteller/director/creativity & lifestory coach with a black belt in ITF Taekwon-do. I read voraciously and I write like my fingers are on fire. I'm the founder and Chair of the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl and I'm a former president of the St. John's Storytelling Festival. I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie.

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