I recently spent the weekend on retreat. A hugely restorative 48 hours in a beautiful place with the perfect mix of rest and activity, and a fabulous teacher in Jade McClernon.

As it came towards the end there was a focus on what we wanted to take home with us.

What to add into our regular lives that would help us hold onto some of the magical feeling.

One thing to say yes to for ourselves.

A super useful exercise, as when you can’t take it all, it can be easy not to take anything, to simply return to normal life.

To think that, because you can’t recreate the whole experience, then doing nothing is the only option.

All or nothing thinking can keep us stuck in all kinds of areas of our lives. It can stop us making changes or starting something in case we can’t do it ‘properly’.

And yet by starting with one thing, we can start to create the space to add more. Mine started with keeping my toenails painted and led to a new regular hot yoga habit :-)

So if you are feeling that you can’t do all of something, ask yourself if there’s one small part of it that you COULD do.

What’s one small thing that you can say yes to?

And how can you put it into practice right now?

Wishing you all a wonderful week,