My recently redecorated front porch. I’d like to spend more time doing nothing here.

That one that you get after you accomplish something that felt nearly impossible? For a moment, it’s total euphoria. And then, for me at least, there is a huge crash where I just want to bask in the glow of what I’ve done and take a nice, looooooong nap.

After you’ve worked so hard for so long, you deserve a break, right? I always thought so.

I feel the same way after a long writing session. It’s a content exhaustion.

I used to love to bask in the feeling. Relax. Reflect. Take some time before beginning the next task. But lately, as I get further down this whole self-employed, stay-at-home-parent-while-running-twothree-businesses-and-go-to-grad-school life that I’ve built (and I love love love this life, please don’t think I’m complaining, I’m not at all) I can’t take a break. Because there is always something else that needs to be done.

I’m trying to learn— when is okay to step back, say the list can wait until later, and just do nothing? Right now, for me, it’s after the kids go to bed. Unless I’ve got some formatting stuff to do (like laying out Your Pilates Life, which btw, I did for nearly six hours last night. Be looking for it in actual book form soon!) I usually pop some popcorn and plop myself in front of the television.

But I often wonder if that time shouldn’t be spent more productively. Maybe I should be painting (I still want to really launch an art career also). Or making necklaces. Or writing. Or…or…or…

What do you think? I know this isn’t a problem just for me. Should there be “veg” time every day? Or just on weekends? How do you balance everything that needs to get done?