Take that cat nap.

We finally made it through Thanksgiving weekend. It is now Sunday as I am writing this and we got our first snowfall in Chicago. Tree is up. We are good to go.

I went to bed a little on the late side the night before but did wake up at a decent hour, not too early, not too late. I began to make breakfast and had my coffee but yet, I was still SO tired. “What gives?” I thought to myself.

These snowy days and wintry weather does make me want to take a nap too, you know what I mean, those days where there is no sunlight in sight and all you want to do was nap,but I was fighting it, there was still so much to do! I had to get going on working on my content for this blog and for my business,needed to do grocery shopping, prepare dinner and had to fold laundry. No way can I stop and take a nap!

But as I stated, nothing was helping me gain more energy to do it all, not even my second round of coffee that happened to be a triple espresso latte. Nothing.

So I took that nap. Ten minutes.

I got so much energy just from that cat nap.

I bounced back up and took that snowy walk to the grocery store and lugged that big bag back home.

I finished dinner by 6:15ish pm. I was on a roll.

And I also mustered up the energy to write this post.

What did I learn? That sometimes we need to just stop in the hustle and bustle and just REST. If I needed a nap for more than 10 minutes, I would have. Because no caffeine boost or even food was going to get my energy back up, it was to rest. That was it.

But sometimes you have to do that trial and error to know what your body really wants. It is all part of being intuitive with your body.

So if all else fails, take that cat nap.

This is a reminder to rest,take a nap,have a dance party in the kitchen, whatever it is to help you get that energy boost as we get into the busy holiday season.

Let me know how it goes! And share this post to anyone that you might feel would benefit.

-Deanna