Hello and wow, haven’t we all been learning and growing lately?
2020 has been a lot to process. So I thought I’d pop by this morning and tell you a little story about my world here in Sydney. (It’s not a BIG story, but I thought you might need a breather from all the news, so if you do, please read on!)
In the last few months, my side of the bed slowly turned from refuge into war zone.
Why? Mid-life, waking up in the night, feeling too hot…just uncomfortable.
Really, between the poor sleep and the nightly waking up and the blankets I just didn’t love and the floppy duvet cover, I was feeling awful in the mornings. In fact, I was feeling so awful that I dreaded getting into bed at night because I thought I was going to have another poor sleep.
This went on for months. Literally months.
So this is what I did—and it’s GENIUS. And it’s so simple that I’m surprised I didn’t see this earlier. I realised an important truth:
To change things, I have to CHANGE things. (I know, basic, right? But why did I overlook this?)
I stripped off all the blankets from our bed.
I washed the duvet cover and got it ready for the donation pile.
Then I drove to the mall, walked into my favourite bedding shop (still open as an essential business during COVID), and bought the softest, snuggliest grey winter blanket I could find. See it up there?? That one. It was surprisingly inexpensive.
I came home, laundered everything and remade my bed. The duvet that had been driving me crazy is gone. In its place is a very affordable new blanket—so soft, so big, so warm-but-not-hot. And I have slept so much better every night since.
Such a small fix to such a huge problem, but the change had to start with me.
The fix: to change things, we actually have to CHANGE things.
We have to say ENOUGH, make a decision and activate ourselves.
We have to decide, then do.
Is there a small change you need to make to feel better now? Or a bigger change? You can do it. (Decide, then do.)
Sending you love today from my home to yours.
Catherine x
PS.
Still excited to share my special project with you—coming soon!
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