For someone who does a lot during the day, I sure do whine about not getting anything done, especially when there isn’t enough to show for it.

Granted, I have days when all I want to do is stay in bed and not move a muscle. (Lately it’s been feeling like most of my days were just this.) But then there are also days when I surprise myself with how much I can accomplish.

This morning, as I lay in bed playing on my phone, I came across an ad featuring a woman — someone not so different from me — talking about the product she was promoting. And in that moment, a familiar thought crept in: Look at her. She’s out there doing something with her life, while I’m just lying here playing games.

But then, I heard another part of me as if it had been waiting to speak up, say: It’s 6:30 AM on a weekend. What do you expect yourself to be doing?

That logical voice was so blunt, it snapped me out of my own pity party. The woman in the ad wasn’t standing there, promoting that product in real-time. She had filmed it at some scheduled point in the past, and now it was just playing on repeat. I didn’t know that she was actively “doing” anything in that moment, just as I wasn’t “wasting” time.

And that’s when it hit me: I do get things done as they need to get done. And right now, what I need is exactly this — lying in bed, enjoying the rare quiet before the kids wake up.

And another thing I realized was how no matter what we are doing in life, we still don’t feel that satisfaction of doing enough. There’s always something more we could be doing. Even the woman in the ad could be watching her video and going: meh, I could have done more!

No matter how much we do, that nagging feeling always lingers: Could I be doing more? Should I be doing more?

But maybe the real question isn’t Am I doing enough? Maybe it’s ‘Why do I feel like I always have to be doing something?‘

Because the truth is, rest is just as important as action. Some moments are for productivity, and some are for simply being. And both are enough.

Love always,