I am feeling distracted this week. I don’t know what to write in my blog, yet I am committed to writing once a week.

This is apparently a common experience with entrepreneurs and other professionals who want to create new content and connect with their audience.

The more I think “I don’t know what to write,” the more real that thought becomes. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And so I change my thinking.

I am free to write.

I am free to write even though I don’t know what I will write about.

I am also free not to write. I don’t have to.

I have choice.

I am free to let thoughts come and go.

I am open to whatever comes to me.

I am free to notice ease in my body.

I notice that thoughts about having to write and not knowing what to write correlate with an increase in tension in my body – in my neck.

I notice when I give myself the freedom to write, or not write, freedom to not have to know what to write and to be open to what comes, that I get easier in myself. The tension decreases, my breathing starts to flow.

I am a planner. I get comfort from knowing what to do, organizing my thoughts – my writing. I feel in control.

There is nothing wrong with this. A lot of this time it is useful. But not always.

Not when I don’t know what to write. Not when I don’t have a plan.

I don’t have a plan, but I do have a process.

So I write my process. I write my thoughts. I’ve never been big on “free writing.” Tonight I am sensing the merits of it.

As an entrepreneur, as a woman in business, I write to connect with my audience, to share about what I do, to inspire, teach, clarify, question. I write for me and my audience. My audience is me.

Whatever I am doing, I can do it with more freedom, with more ease, with more body intelligence.

I can notice.

I can notice when I get easier in myself. I can notice when there is more tension. It comes and it goes.

The process is to notice – to pay attention – and to use my awareness and thinking to encourage more ease. To experiment, be curious, explore. Ease will come, ease will go. It’s a practice and a process.

This process helps me whatever I am doing.

Whether I’m writing, thinking, planning, organizing, speaking, typing, Skyping, meeting, greeting, presenting, computing, networking, Facebooking, emailing.

It can help you too.

As always, I’d love to hear from you. The comments function is still not working properly here on the blog. In the meantime, if you have an observation, question or comment for me, please hop over to my Facebook page and leave it there.

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