Try a day with no musts or shoulds

Give yourself the gift of time with zero obligations

About a year ago, the Best of Both Worlds podcast received a listener question about whether there was ever a day when we fantasized about not getting out of bed.

I have to admit that spending the whole day in bed, even with a good book, doesn’t sound that appealing to me. Unless I was ill, I would get antsy pretty quickly.

But what I do love occasionally is to have a day with nobody around me that I need to care for, and no commitments scheduled for a particular time. On a day like that, I can take the day as it comes and do whatever I’m in the mood for. Perhaps a run, a trip to an art museum, a spontaneous stop at a restaurant for lunch, or just looking through magazines. Once in a while, I love the opportunity to do anything I want at the pace that feels right in the moment.

Now obviously such days are few and far between — it’s not easy to arrange a day with no work or family obligations.

But if you are home with kids for a week or more over this winter break, a day with no musts or shoulds (or at least limited musts or shoulds) might be just the thing you need to feel refreshed and in a far more festive frame of mind.

So how do you set up what blogger Lisa of Lisa’s Yarns calls a “shouldless" day?