This past weekend was busy for me.
I travelled to Pittsburgh, PA, USA for a martial arts tournament which involved planning, packing, driving, dining, coaching, judging, coordinating, problem-solving, facilitating, calming, communicating, motivating, entertaining, and of course… sleeping.
See both Friday and Saturday night… by the time I got to my Airbnb after a day involving everything mentioned above… I was exhausted.
And in both cases, I thought about my daily writing practice… and how I still needed to get something published in order to keep my schedule.
And in both cases, after some quick and calm reflection (while I laid in the Airbnb bed)… I realized that in that moment—sleep was the higher priority.
…Which is worth mentioning because this is not something I have always prioritized this way.
In previous times, the daily writing piece was prioritized higher over sleeping… and I would push myself to stay up late… sacrifice precious (and limited) sleep time… and essentially borrow exponentially into tomorrow compared to what I was putting in… affecting my entire following day.
For some crazy reason… society considers sleep a very low priority… and I FELT it for a long time. I’m slowly starting to unlearn this idea and give myself more grace when it comes to being exhausted after a long day—even when that means a daily 1-minute article will be missed.
Because you know what?
Sleep IS the higher priority over 1-minute articles… and for most other things we backwardly choose to do in its place for that matter…
My question for you is… what thing(s) have you backwardly been prioritizing that you need to unlearn?