Serendipity

Last night at my book club (don’t worry, this is a zoom based book club), we were talking about listening to our inner knowing and about listening for a sort of nudge for what step to take next. The book club is on Untamed by Glennon Doyle (which people seem to either LOVE LOVE LOVE, or HATE HATE HATE!). I guess I’m in the love category, but I can see it both ways.

So we had been talking about inner knowing and that whole “be still and know” thing. Late last night, I was reading another book and it was also talking about paying attention to any nudges for what to do next in life. And it was also talking about getting what you want out of life (your ideal self and situation), by working with the present.

So this morning, during my morning meditation, I felt a nudge. I walked into my kitchen and just felt that the best version of myself has a cleaner kitchen. While this ideal self with an ideal kitchen in an ideal house, etc., might not be this one, I felt so strongly that step one was to organize some items in the kitchen. This snowballed into a deep clean of the kitchen that didn’t feel like a normal deep clean. This wasn’t the tedious torture of domestic drudgery, it was simply changing a few things to make it closer to the kitchen the ideal me should have (I’m pretty sure she pays someone very well to do this cleaning for her, but ya know, there’s a pandemic on et cetera…).  I have no idea how that wasn’t as exhausting as it usually is, maybe it was the perspective change.

Anyway, I spent my day grinning every time I walked into my gloriously clean kitchen.  I felt proud of it. This was a kitchen worthy of the version of myself I’m becoming.

At 2:30 p.m., my daughter announced that she was going to be doing a live cooking demonstration for her baking club at 3:00 P.M.

But, my kitchen was actually clean. There was no mad dash to try to make it presentable. It was already clean, very clean. No embarrassment for anyone. I win. I so, so win. Serendipity. And I’m anxiously awaiting that next nudge.