What if you’re right on time?

For months now, maybe even a year or more, I have been wanting to spend 10 minutes, first thing in the morning, drinking my coffee outside.

I set up the perfect spot to sit, with chairs facing east toward the rising sun, moved the gas fire pit over to the chairs. But for some reason I couldn’t get myself to take my coffee outside in the mornings.

Actually I know exactly the reasons:

1. It’s been winter time, and cold, and less sunny, and not the ideal weather for wanting to be outside.

2. Because of the time I get up in the mornings, I would wake up, look at the clock and automatically think, “I’m behind.”

In this episode:

• more about why I sleep so much, which precipitated the “I’m behind” narrative

• a conversation with a friend who was telling herself the same thing, about a completely different situation

• how we both got ourselves out of the “I’m behind” cycle and laughed at ourselves

• how you can get out of that cycle too

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Under the Gum Tree: underthegumtree.com

• More to the Story coaching & editing for women: moretothestory.co

• AWP in LA, March 27-29

• follow me on Instagram: @jannamarlies

• follow Under the Gum Tree on Instagram @undergumtree

Question for you:

When have you felt like you’re behind? Or maybe you feel like you’re behind right now—what makes you feel like you’re behind? Who says you’re behind? And just who, exactly, are you behind?

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Thanks so much for listening and for being here! xo