It’s the part after making the morning coffee and sitting down with a portable keyboard at my phone. While the kids are waking up and rolling into the day, I take a few moments to get lost in my thoughts.

A hybrid between morning pages, journaling and freewriting, it’s an opportunity where I can get just go free. Anything crawling around in the mind is put out onto the page.

It’s a time for just me, that can only be seen by myself.

If the morning is running late, the time gets taken elsewhere. All else is ignored while I take a few minutes to do some soul searching. At some point, when time becomes less of a luxury commodity, I may go back to pen and paper and really dive in each day.

In the meantime, a few selfish minutes of self-reflection. It may be the only time in a day when somebody asks, “How are you doing?” and be able to respond honestly.