If you’re the type of person to be rattle when your plan for the day gets ruined by an unforeseen event, then this is for you.
What I want to say is, the regular person would just shrug, do whatever he needs to do, within his abilities, and if he doesn’t end up meeting his goals for the day, he just goes back home and watches tv or hits the club with his homies.
However, I’m not built like that. If I have a goal for the day, and I don’t meet it, or I get forced by someone else (my perception) to do an errand, even though I’m aware that the errand is something for my own sake more than anyone else’s.
Well, the trick is to watch your thoughts more than you engage them.
When you start thinking about how your plan is ruined and you won’t be able to work as much as you needed to, just watch and observe.
You don’t need to convince yourself that you can work tomorrow, or the day after, or that the work is inherently meaningless and you’ll die anyway.
No.
You only need to watch, and observe. After a while, you’ll be shocked at how many of your thought patterns don’t really serve you, and that you weren’t the one who chose to put them there anyway.
Rec Reading: Letting Go
Blurb:
I studied today, but I lost my library card, and now I can’t stop thinking about where I lost it and how I need to make a new one and what not. An arduous process and too much paperwork, even more than when making it for the first time. Anyway, after letting my thoughts simmer for a while, I realized that I can only do two things. First, take a quick look at the places I’ve been to today, before losing it. Second, if I couldn’t find it, then my best bet would be to move on, do the bloody paperwork, and forget about it. Life’s good.
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