Finding Brave Tip #2 - Why We Need To Make Time Each Day To Be Alone and What Happens When We Do

Hello, I'm Kathy Caprino, and I wanted to take this moment to share with you a finding grave tip that sometimes is challenging for me to adhere to and focus on and incorporate in my life. So if it's hard for me, I think it's probably hard for a lot of people, and that is to slow down and to disengage from work, work, work and producing, creating and putting out in the world and to just be with ourselves. And whee. I'm standing here at the harbor near where I live with my beagle, who's walking away now. So I'm gonna walk, too. And what I want to talk about is briefly, what I've seen is the importance of taking time for your doing the things that fill you up, that make you feel so grateful, that make you. That allow you to connect with yourself and listen. So I have an observation. Do you ever say you're gonna go for a walk and you bring your phone and you can't walk three steps without looking at your text, looking at your LinkedIn status, calling your friend? I mean, that's often me. It's a challenge. I was gonna say a struggle. Maybe it's that too, for me to just disengage with all of this input and just be. And when I am able to do that, the shifts happen. Usually there's more gratitude, there's more peace, there's more balance, there's more perspective, there's letting go of what's been irking me and making me mad. There's by the time I get back home and back to my office after 30 minutes of a break outside in nature or with my dog, I wouldn't even write the same kind of email in the same tone I would have 30 minutes ago. So we hear this, we read this. This is not brain science. But if it's hard for you, like it's hard for me to take the time to just be with myself or my pooch and myself, I really ask you to think about can you do it? Can you do it every day? Can you watch what happens when you do it every day? 30 minutes by yourself or with your animal, where you're not plugged in, you're not checking your vanity metrics, you're not checking who's reaching out, needing something from you. You're just with yourself. I hope that's helpful. Have a wonderful day and I will see you later. And you know these Finding Brave tips I'm going to do every week, but I do hope you'll tune into my Finding Brave podcast. Which has been just a life giver and a lifesaver to me to record interviews with these people who are so inspiring and motivating and raw and open and vulnerable and just amazing. That's@findinggrave.org and I hope to see you there. Have a great day. Bye.