What If the Answer Is…
Nothing?
I woke up feeling off.
Not just a little tired, not just in a lull—disillusioned. Sad. Out of sorts with myself.
Maybe it’s the long talk with my daughter, the way it skimmed around but never fully landed on the tension I have with her sister. A relationship fraught with landmines.
Maybe it’s because I live in a city where I have no family, very few friends, no sense of being part of anything at all.
Just me. And these words on this screen.
And in the middle of all that, I heard the nudge.
Go sit with God.
And what did I do? Ignored it.
Why Do We Avoid the One Thing That Will Actually Help?
Why do we do this?
Why do we put off the one thing that will bring us back to center?
I distracted myself. I binge-watched a show about resilience, set in Montana. But it was also violent—and violence always gets me down.
So I wake up the next day, unrested, disconnected, and wondering Why do I feel so off?
And then, mid-thought, I get nudged to check a post from a friend. A woman whose leadership and passion for democracy I’d been pondering just ten minutes before.
And right then, I realized:
I am never NOT connected.
Even in my lowest moments, even when I’m ignoring the nudge, I am still connected.
The difference isn’t that I lost my connection.
The difference is the level of my connection.
And honey, that level was low—because I didn’t tend to it.
What If the Answer Isn’t to Try Harder, But to Do Nothing?
And this is where it all comes full circle.
Because I see it.
On Facebook—friends going silent, not posting like they used to.
On Substack—notes full of “keep going, push through, don’t give up!”
We’re all urging someone to do something.
But what if…
The moment calls for doing nothing?
What if, instead of pushing, forcing, or chasing,
We just sat still?
Sit. Just Sit.
Not meditate.
Not journal.
Not read something inspiring.
Just sit with yourself.
For two minutes.
Set a timer. Put your phone down. And just sit.
It’s awkward. It’s uncomfortable at first.
But then? Something shifts.
Clarity returns.
Ambition returns.
Interest returns.
And why?
Because in the nothingness of sitting, we allow our vibration to naturally rise—to meet the vibration of the original Creator of the universe.
And in that space?
We are no longer fighting. No longer wrangling the day.
We are simply at ease.
Try it. Two minutes a day.
It’s not hard. It’s not complicated. It’s not rocket science.
But it just might change everything.
What Does This Have to Do with Re-Claiming Dreams?
Everything.
Because the more you sit with yourself, the more you will see yourself.
You’ll gain insights, clarity, and ideas that will move you forward in ways you never expected.
Dreams don’t come from pushing.
Dreams don’t come from grinding.
Dreams come when you give yourself enough space to hear them.
And that starts by doing… nothing.
Thank you Monica, yes I very much agree with 'the more you sit with yourself, the more you will see yourself.' so true ❤️
Many a times it can be as hard to do nothing as doing things. I started at two minutes as well because it was so hard to just be still. Now I try to at least go for my run or workout in the morning without anything in my ears.