be mindful." As the day progressed I became very observant of the currents of my emotional reactions to the earlier events and I watched their ebb and flow rather like the currents in the tidal estuary that my apartment overlooks.īy late afternoon I had taken a serious step back and was in a mindful state of observation and reflection and it occurred to me how ironic it was that despite 20 + years of mindfulness practice, and many years of writing articles on how to think effectively and how to stop thinking, I still fall into the old grooves and bad mental habits. "Don't you think you are over-reacting to all this. Then as I drove the short distance to the gym my mind was flooded with negative thoughts about the various frustrations and irritations in my life.īy the time I got to the gym I was feeling thoroughly hacked-off with life.įortunately I have been doing mindfulness practice for a long time now so from the other side of my head I could hear a little voice whispering: But following my own advice in an article I wrote yesterday I just did it and went to the gym. I looked at the time and I was by now an hour late leaving to go to the gym. this was interrupted by a business call from Singapore during which I re-explained the finer points of a current deal to a colleague. I decided to have another look at cash-flow forecasts for this month. I then checked the stats on my social media campaign and the stats were neither up nor down but static overnight and that irritated me. So to cheer myself up I checked the stats on my website and OMG the daily visitor count was down yesterday! There was an irritating message telling me that a cost saving exercise I was trying to initiate on one of my businesses was actually going to cost more money and regardless of which of the available options I took it was still going to cost me more money.Ī friend and colleague who is running my social media campaign messaged to say she was sick and unable to work today. I sat down first thing with my early morning cup of Vietnamese coffee before heading off to the gym and I opened my email and got off to a bad start. This morning was the beginning of a not-so-good day. Various other business and personal projects have been progressing nicely. I've been doing quite well recently and feeling good about myself and the quality of my writing and the number of articles I have been able to write over the past week.
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