Going Flat Out?

Work for a writer certainly has an ebb and flow. Most times it's either a dry sea bed or a tidal wave. A colleague told me a story about how busy she had been recently. How every time she talked to this person or that person, she had moaned, "I'm going flat out."

Over and over again, this is what she said.

Then she got a flat tire. Never had one before.

"Right then, I stopped talking about deadlines," she said, straight-faced.

Frankly, so did I. I'm a believer.

I haven't used the 'D' word since.

There is power in a word.

This from Dr. Christiane Northrup:

"Remember: Words are powerful. They matter. The words we choose shape our experience. They create the story we tell ourselves. And the story we tell ourselves becomes our biology. Quite literally, our cells believe the stories we tell ourselves and they respond accordingly. So please. Learn how to monitor your thoughts and words."

What if this week's word was "Relax"?