Jul 23, 2024 1 min read

Make Room For Jet Lag

Midjourney: a man sitting at a dining room table with a pen in his hand resting on a journal, a cup of coffee in front of him, and a whole collage of thoughts above his head in a dream-like bubble. Make the dream images pictures of traveling and pasta and wine and Tuscany and airplanes and oceans from a recent trip he went on. --ar 16:9

I was recently given a quick mindset adjustment that works in just about any circumstance.

Instead of saying, "I have to..." say, "I get to..."

So this morning, after getting home at 1 a.m. from an incredible vacation, I am not saying, "I have to deal with jet lag." I am working on saying, "I get to deal with jet lag."

As I sat at the dining room table much earlier than I normally do and had my second cup of coffee much earlier than I normally do, I opened up my journal to capture a quick thought that came to me as the coffee was brewing.

Four and a half pages later, that thought had turned into evidence that my subconscious ruminations about this "quick thought" had been working in the background for the past week. Thanks to jet lag, I got to have the time and space to pull the thread and see how far I could take it.

Turns out - pretty far. It almost looked like the outline of a book. Almost.

More to share on that in the near future.

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