I\u2019m sure everyone reading the title of today\u2019s blog has to be wondering what the heck I could possibly mean when I say that some days you just need to go to the Pooh tent? \u00a0I\u2019ll explain:<\/p>\n
Years ago I shared in a blog how when my children were young and they were acting badly or being grumpy they would take a time out in the \u201cHappy Chair\u201d, which was a bright yellow chair with happy images painted on it at our house. They would sit in the chair until they could feel happy again. I loved that Happy Chair!<\/p>\n
When I moved my first company from my home to an actual office, the kids started coming to work with me each day. They had a room for themselves right next to mine and they would sit at their little Fisher Price desks and color and play with the toys in their \u2018office\u2019. When they got grumpy or starting acting up at work I didn\u2019t have another \u201cHappy Chair\u201d to keep at the office so instead I took a pop-up Winnie the Pooh tent and I would send the kids to take a time out in the \u201cPooh Tent\u201d until they could feel happy again. They could take time away from everyone inside the Pooh Tent to calm down and take a minute for themselves and then they could emerge from the tent feeling happy again. \u00a0I loved that Pooh Tent!<\/p>\n
Today got off to a rocky start when a morning meeting started 40 minutes late which made a few other meetings get backed up which made my pile of to do\u2019s get backed up\u2026you get the drift\u2026the more stressful things got throughout the day the more I felt the weight of it piling on my shoulders and I couldn\u2019t help but find myself wishing that I had my own \u201cPooh Tent\u201d in the office to climb into.\u00a0 I could feel that I needed a moment alone, inside a Pooh Tent to get away from everything and everyone for a minute or two so I could take a minute alone to calm down and take a deep breath and refocus my thoughts so that I could emerge from the tent feeling happy again.<\/p>\n
I think all of us have days when we could use a Happy Chair at home and a Pooh Tent in our office! Seriously!\u00a0 There is just no doubt we could all use one!!! So either we need to go buy an actual Happy Chair and a Pooh Tent, or we need to find a spot in our home and a place in our office that we can designate as our substitute Happy Chair and our substitute Pooh Tent. Whether it\u2019s a chair, or a closet, or a spot on the floor, we just need a place we have designated specifically as our \u201clet it go\u201d spot so we mentally know that we can go there we will block things out and take a deep breath and get centered again so we can emerge feeling HAPPY!<\/p>\n
Have an awesome day everyone! And if at any point its not awesome, just go to the Pooh Tent \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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