I am perfectly serious about this.

All of you amazingly busy and creative people out there – stop what you are doing and relax, for crying out loud!  It is summer in the city of your soul and time to take a much deserved vacation.

In a recent post, I introduced the first step of  my Twelve Step Plan for everyone like me who needs to be accomplishing things all the time and asked you to help me create this.   Thanks to everyone who responded with great ideas for the Plan!

I always believed that one of us can be so much smarter with all of us.

OK everyone, the first step to get you in the right frame of mind is:

1. Get over yourself

Here is the next step

2. Get off the grid

This is really scary.

It works better if you accidentally jump in the pool with your phone in your pocket, but for the rest of us who lobsterclaw our phones in our sleep it may be more difficult to let go.  If you must must must have your phone with you, shut your ringers and alerts off and try getting used to the silence.  After a while you will start to feel disconnected, a little bubble drifting above the rest of us.  Suspended.

Like floating on your back in the ocean, suspended between sea and sky.  A sunrise, a fading moon.

Have a conversation with the universe.  No data plan required.

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