While I'm still adjusting to my new rhythm of waking up an hour before sunrise, the decision seems to be serving me well. I wake at 5 am with the phone alarm (or just beforehand if I'm lucky) and gently roll out of bed. Since it's getting cold(er) here in Brisbane I put on (more) clothes and then toddle out to the kitchen.
As per the wonderful lessons regarding the improvement of sleep by Dr Andrew Huberman I immediately turn on a (bright-at-that-early-hour) overhead light in the kitchen and turn on the kettle. My ritual of drinking two big glasses helps to wake my body up and I pair this hydration with either some yoga or some EFT tapping. Sometimes I do both, and occasionally I follow this with some dancing.
The aim in the morning is to wake my body up well (regardless of whether I slept well or not) so that I can set myself up for a good day, and also set my body clock for the day so I sleep well (or better) the following night.
Today was a good day. After my initial successful morning routine was completed I was ready for breakfast by 6 am and in front of the computer ready to work on a project before 7 am. I'd had an idea during my nap yesterday that I would do a series of short videos on my YouTube Channel about the different Human Design Types.
Human Design is an in-depth, insanely accurate, personality profiling tool, of sorts, based on the time, date and location of one's birth. I've been using this tool in my life and business for 8 years and creating resources for my clients, students and the general public on various aspects of the Human Design system for much of that time. It was time to create a new spate of these as I saw a need for simple, straightforward, short videos on this all-important aspect of HD. Now... back to my story.
I was stoked with the result I was able to produce today. After writing out a dot-point guideline for what I wanted to cover, and getting Brad's help to tweak the light (he's so much better at the visual aspects than I am!), I fumbled my way through 7 or 8 attempts and false starts and then finally ended up with one, 15-minute video I'm really happy with.
One topic, one whole proper video, done!
I uploaded it to YouTube, trimmed the beginning and end using the YT Editor, created a thumbnail using Canva (it could be better, but it will have to do for now), added a description with all the promised links to other resources, and scheduled it for release for tomorrow morning.
Fabulous work. I'm very happy.
Somewhere in between all that I made two almond dirty chai's (and drank them!), made a small green smoothie for Brad and a giant one for me (and drank 2/3rds of it!), and caught up on Replies and Mentions here on Hive 🙌
Then I had a client.
It was my first time doing an EFT (tapping) session with her as she'd come to me for Human Design. Over several sessions it had become obvious that she knew enough about her chart and it was time to switch tack and help her to unravel the old stories that were keeping her stuck. It went really, really well. I was both grateful and relieved (I hadn't onboarded a new EFT client in months and I'm so used to tapping with people who know this tool really, really well!)
After all that excitement, I needed a nap. Though, as I play with this new rhythm while I know I need a proper rest during the day (because I don't quite get as many hours at night as I think I really need), I've worked out that I feel more well-rested if I do what's called Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR). I usually opt for either a guided Yin Yoga session that I can hear online or I listen to a guided meditation/visualisation thing by one of my mentors.
Today I did the latter. It was, as usual, brilliant.
Once I re-emerged into the lounge room and the real world again I started what will be an epic post for here on Hive, but realised I had too much that I wanted to say and it would need to wait 'til tomorrow. So today instead of that one, you get this, a story about my brilliant day. Complete with some photos from our walk, which came after my first attempt at a HiveBloPoMo post for the day and before dinner.
And now, photos of the beauty I saw and Brad captured on camera who is a total expert at getting away from humans, climbing up huge trees with its super sharp claws and soaking up sun 🙂
This, my friends, is a Lace Monitor, also known as a Goanna.
All photos by Brad,
, the enthusiastic and consistent photographer who is forever fueling my posts with better images than I probably ever could. Thanks babe 😘