Lightness.

Resistance loves heaviness and seriousness. It wants us to take ourselves and our work too seriously. Everything becomes a threat or a distraction trying to interrupt our serious work.

This stops us from being childlike and playful in our work.

What if, instead, we could embrace the playfulness and with the lightness, do our work?

What if, we start enjoying the entire set-up, as if we were a child in a playground, rather than taking everything so seriously?

What if, we allow ourselves to make mistakes or to get "distracted", and exclaim, "How fascinating?"

What if we could be happy while we work?

Wasn't that why we signed up for it in the first place?

Does it really need to be a war?

“What is writing?” was one of my first questions and it held the key. I was defining writing very, very narrowly, as sitting at a computer and producing words. I continued walking and walking and relaxed my mind. And this is the new definition of writing, and the new story, that I (or it, or Divine Intervention or Nature herself) came up with: “Everything I do at the cabin—from the time I get out of the car in front of the cranberry bog until the time I get into the car to go back to Boston—is writing. Walking the dog is writing, having lunch is writing, certainly taking a nap is writing, and a night’s sleep is writing. Reading the newspaper and playing solitaire are both writing, and punching the keys down on the computer is also writing.”

Rosamund Stone Zander, Pathways to Possibility