We like to keep it real here at the Daily Reminders and I’m not ashamed to say that man, I’m distracted at the moment.
In kind of a good way, but distracted nonetheless. I haven’t had a brain this buzzy and full of ideas for ages. Ping! Zip! K-pow! it’s going.
Big project, innit? Hard deadlines. Lots of moving pieces. Emails. Documents. Decisions. Web pages. Queries. Problems. Testing… it’s all going on.
Constant mental distraction. I’ve got lists to note ideas and tasks down on, but some days there’s so much going on, I can barely keep up.
Lots of insight too, I must add. Walking back from a friend’s house earlier, who’d been helping me with my website, a big old light bulb went off about how to easily solve a problem that surfaced about a week ago.
The old back burner is simmering away nicely, it seems.
Giles P Croft
It's worth familiarising yourself with this strategy.
Anyway, the other day I found myself standing in the kitchen at 2pm, still in my pyjamas and dressing gown, making an umpteenth cup of tea and realising that I hadn’t come anywhere close to sitting down and getting focused enough to write a Daily Reminder.
I had about 5 open threads that my mind was trying to address all at once, and I knew that if I sat back down at my desk again, I’d be chasing them all physically too.
So I did that thing. That human thing we can all do; the one that really helps:
I realised that being upstairs, near my computer, was not an option, if I wanted to get quiet and write.
So I grabbed my iPad and sat at the kitchen table instead. Needs must. Worked until it was done.
Nothing fancy, no whizz-bang techniques or anything.
Just working with the mind, not against it and using some good old fashioned common sense.
That’s something we all have, built in.
Remember to slow down and use it from time to time!
💟
Giles
p.s. As is so often the case, that last sentence aimed at the Giles Ego Construct 📦, as much as the Reader Ego Construct 📦 – don't take it personally!
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