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Today I got up at 9.30am. I felt guilty as soon as I saw my clock. Why? I had no appointments till lunch.

I had watched a movie till midnight the night before till my eyes where half shut and bed was calling. As I walked up the stairs though to the land of nod, my brain started to tick and, as my head hit the pillow, it screamed, "hello there, brain calling Paul. Come in Paul". As I lay there staring at the ceiling listening to my mind question me about my lack of achievement and low motivation over the last couple of days, I suddenly thought, hang on a minute!  It's ok for me to feel these things from time to time, stop giving me a hard time.

It occurred to me that in this day and age, where self help books abound, positive and motivational thinking is the new religion and making money is the quest of all humanity, we are classed as second class citizens if we are down, or classed as depressed and then medicated! Feeling down is an emotion after all, one that is becoming a taboo and classed as an illness instead of simply an emotion. Yes I know there are extremes and I'm not talking about that here. I'm just talking about down days. Days when nothing seems to go to plan, where your energy levels are low and resistance to outside influences may be a bit weak.

In my case, getting up at 9.30am on a week day instead of being up and at 'em with everyone else made me feel guilty and lazy. It didn't match my usual pattern. Oh no, I'm getting depressed! Bull! My mojo was having a holiday that's all and I let it.