Have you heard the joke where this guy walks into the doctors office and says, "Doc, it hurts everytime I do this," as he demonstrates bending his arm at elbow; to which the doctor replies "Well stop doing that." (Groucho Marx?) Taking things personally is just like that. It hurts when we do it and ...
One of the things we often hear about what makes human beings special and perhaps unique on the planet is that we have free will. But what does that mean exactly? Is it that we are self-directed and autonomous in a way that no other animal is? I think that's what we mean when we say ...
In their Law of Attraction books, Esther and Jerry Hicks talk about segmenting. The idea is you break your day into discrete portions of time or "segments" as a means to focus your attention during that time on something that you want done. This is a brilliant concept. Why? Because my biggest challenge is managing my ...
One is stressful, the other is numbing. The latter type of distraction serves to numb you to the pain of the former. The best example of a numbing distraction is TV. You turn it on and it effectively distracts you (numbs) from all your concerns in the world. It turns your ...
Distraction, not religion, is the opium of the masses. Distraction is the enemy of living my life as a practice. Distraction serves as the band-aid to the worry and anxiety I feel when I'm not effectively taking care of my concerns in life. I know I'm heading off a cliff ...
So with my "Getting things done (not)" as the background, I write about how "clutter" affects me. Like our hero in this April 17th 2008 post, in the process of doing one task I find myself distracted by another. Does this happen to you? On the way to look for a folder or file, I notice ...
I'll be musing about clutter, distractions and the importance of systems and routines in living your life as a practice, and I thought this cute story below would be a great set-up. I have no idea who wrote it. Enjoy. Recently, I was diagnosed with Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder ...