Mexican Time

We have been down in Barra de Navidad for a little over a week with some friends and whenever we are in Mexico it reminds me of the need to wind down a bit more in my day to day life back home.  I know it is easier to fill your days with beach, beer, and tacos when you are not working but do we really need to run around like our hair is on fire when we are home.  Maybe it is our need to over schedule, maybe it is the drive to be efficient with our time, maybe it is the belief in the false reality of multi-tasking but we all need to just chill out a little more.  I blame email, of course, that is a whole other subject for another time but the reality is when down in Mexico we shop for and consume way more fresh food. We take more time over our morning coffee. We linger and laugh more around meals.  We read more, we walk more and as a result we sleep better.  A few years ago I decided that I would limit reading my work email to work hours and only then check in once or twice a day.  This was a good first step to building more Mexican time into my Canadian lifestyle but now I think I have to kick it up a notch.  They say little things make the big difference so I am going to put away phones and ipads after 8:00pm.  No online news, no mindless surfing, no flipboard, no solitaire. I am not ready, willing or able to cut back on some of my duties, responsibilities and activities yet so this is a logical next step.  My goal is to make more of the downtime I do have in a day instead of losing it to the internet. Time for a siesta, adios.