Joy of Breaking Your Own Rules

Lately, I have been getting out of my own way and letting myself be. I had spent better part of the last decade working on a routine for my mind, body and lifestyle. A routine that helped me keep my life together for all these years without going insane.  I am was a creature of habit and discipline, I can't believe that, instead I have spent this last year breaking those same habits and letting myself lose. Something was not feeling right. I had started to feel like a prisoner of my own mind. Everything that I had worked on to make life easier had started to feel like an obligation I had to keep. I couldn't figure out what needed to change, so I started changing one thing at a time.  Slowly I stopped doing anything that was not bringing me joy. If I didn't want to do something, my answer was, "No!" without any explanation. "No" is a shortest complete sentence. Did you know? In the last year, I have changed my workouts, I have made my social circle smaller (it was already pretty darn small). I have stopped over-committing myself to make other people happy. I have gone back to being a voracious reader. I watch a movie at the cinemas each month, by myself. I reduced the time I spend on social media. In turn, I reduced the number of posts I publish. This is essentially the first 'real' post from 2018. I had not shot a single outfit post since Dec. 10th.Every post before this has been from backlog of last two years.  And for the first time, in the longest time, I am posting an outfit post on a Thursday instead of Monday. All these year I had been hell-bent on following a routine, thinking my readers would appreciate the consistency and what not ... Guess what? No one cares. So many times, I recycle content and post ages old blogs on other social platforms and no one even notices that they are from 2010.  So what is the lesson here? None. Do what makes sense to you in that moment and brings you joy. Rules and routines are meant to assist us live but now become our whole life.  
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