From the Bottom Up
Apr. 16th, 2010 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosAs much as I would like to believe otherwise, and however much energy I devote to ignoring the simple truth, the fact is that if my material surroundings are in disarray there is a limit to what I can accomplish in other aspects of my life.
There are other factors in play as well, of course -- but this is the one I find the easiest to ignore. And it's also one of the simplest -- not "easiest" but simplest -- to impact in a positive way.
My new day job is less than full time, and I have Fridays off. Fridays are supposed to be the days I devote to doing my own work: my writing, working on developing my spiritual direction practice, doing in-depth spiritual work, and etc. Instead, for the past several weeks I've spent the day wasting time on my computer, spinning my wheels, numbing myself.
Today I managed to break away from that, but as I started trying to focus I realized just how much clutter is in every room, that my floors desperately need to be vaccuumed, and it's impossible to actually work at my desk because it's overrun with miscellany.
So I'm pushing my entire to-do list to the back burner and devoting my day to cleaning. When things get like this it's easy to be overwhelmed, so I'm using my basic self-rescue technique: start by the front door and pick up one thing and one thing only, deal with it, and go on to the next single thing. The windows are all open to let in the spring sunshine, fresh air, and birdsong. There's music playing as well.
Energy is moving. I am moving. Order is being wreaked, slowly and gently. And I'm going to feel a heck of a lot better about myself this evening than I did last Friday.
There are other factors in play as well, of course -- but this is the one I find the easiest to ignore. And it's also one of the simplest -- not "easiest" but simplest -- to impact in a positive way.
My new day job is less than full time, and I have Fridays off. Fridays are supposed to be the days I devote to doing my own work: my writing, working on developing my spiritual direction practice, doing in-depth spiritual work, and etc. Instead, for the past several weeks I've spent the day wasting time on my computer, spinning my wheels, numbing myself.
Today I managed to break away from that, but as I started trying to focus I realized just how much clutter is in every room, that my floors desperately need to be vaccuumed, and it's impossible to actually work at my desk because it's overrun with miscellany.
So I'm pushing my entire to-do list to the back burner and devoting my day to cleaning. When things get like this it's easy to be overwhelmed, so I'm using my basic self-rescue technique: start by the front door and pick up one thing and one thing only, deal with it, and go on to the next single thing. The windows are all open to let in the spring sunshine, fresh air, and birdsong. There's music playing as well.
Energy is moving. I am moving. Order is being wreaked, slowly and gently. And I'm going to feel a heck of a lot better about myself this evening than I did last Friday.
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Date: 2010-04-16 07:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-16 08:45 pm (UTC)And then it's just plain scary. I need to take a page from your book I think, and just start on it (again).
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Date: 2010-04-16 09:14 pm (UTC)I'm glad you are doing what you can to take care of yourself in this way.
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Date: 2010-05-04 09:27 pm (UTC)from http://www.waningmoon.com/darkpagan/lib/lib0022.shtml
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Date: 2010-05-05 01:07 am (UTC)I'm not saying it's not possible, and I have a lot of regard for UPG -- but I'd like some sense of what's behind a statement like that.
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Date: 2010-05-05 05:00 pm (UTC)Классный блог!
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