There was a day when I'd been in a seriously low mood.
It looked like a ‘bad’ day – I had very little to show for it (although, in retrospect I'd done a ton of research and prep-type work).
But that didn't matter, because at the time, my life was just full of insurmountable problems.
It was evening, I hadn't written the next day's Daily Reminder, I was looking down the barrel of a 5am start the next day, and the thing I'd been fretting about all day did not have any solutions.
Added to that, I remembered I'd put washing on and had laundry to hang out on the airer!
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On my way there, miserable as sin, I stopped in front of my wife, herself beavering away on her laptop, to talk about it with her. Again!
“I just don't know what to do,” I concluded, utterly lost.
She looked up, half smiled and replied,
“Oh, you're trying to solve that one now, are you?”
Ha! It was enough to snap me out of it, for a moment. A dose of my own medicine – an obvious reminder that I was guilty of using the wrong tool for the job (i.e. the processing mind, for something that needed a fresh new solution).
A bit lighter—having disengaged from analysis for a while—I busied myself with chores – unloading the dishwasher, getting stuck into the laundry, generally clattering about and doing stuff…
…and not even noticing that I'd ground to a halt and slipped back into pro-level worrying again until my wife, who had noticed that I had gone silent, shouted through from the other room,
“Now's not the time, honey!”
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All I can say is, I wish for you that special someone who'll call you out when you're taking your thinking too seriously.
Failing that, there's always the Daily Reminders.
😘
Giles
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As I say in this one: “Seeing when NOT to use Processing Mode is way more than half the battle!”