PURE, SIMPLE
Thursday July 26, 2018
Sometimes it’s hierarchy of importance (work, money, emergency), sometimes it’s hierarchy of passion (something, someone, some activity we love).
Sometimes it’s getting 40 things done in an hour before company arrives …
Some days staying focused seems impossible. Not that my head is empty – not too full either. Those days when demands of calendar, ringing phones and commitments leave us oddly ‘poised’ like a sprinter in his blocks with no starter’s pistol in sight. The ‘ready’ state without a demand load on our shoulders. This would be called a sunny silent morning …
The balance between these states is not work/life balance but rather reality. Inside my head – and it feels anything but balanced.
On one hand I can’t wait for certain (reminder: nothing is ever certain) things to happen because they will trigger many other things I’m itching to do. On the other hand, I look at ‘things I’ve been putting off’ – and the excuse I allow myself, that I let them linger on my ‘things I need to do when I have time list’ …
Some days staying focused is easy – what I’m focused on is so important that everything else falls to the side. Not permanently, but that day everything revolves around some issue, some person, some piece of work, some piece I’m writing, some ailment I’m nursing. I think we are all that way – what we focus on expands.
When something demands, we respond.
At all other times, it’s choice. Pure and simple.
Pure.
Simple.
Reader feedback:
DEDUCING DEMONS
Good Morning Mark. I am sure enjoying your musings and listening to your perspective on life.I was recently reading Dr. James Dobson and thought I would share the following with you ---please don’t persecute me for being a “religious Zealot” – I am not, I just enjoy a personal relationship with my best friend…, LM, Calgary … p.s. I wasn’t expecting to have anything
