Sometimes, my life feels splintered.
Can you identify with that at all?
One travels through life, making progress upon progress, and then life pulls you in several directions at once. Family needs, business needs, community needs, personal needs – your singular vision falters and scatters into myriad directions.
And, instead of feeling whole, you feel splintered.
That’s the way I’ve been feeling for the past few days. Too many objects demanding my focus. And a focus splintered is weak focus.
You don’t make progress with weak focus.
“An organism at war with itself is doomed” Carl Sagan
When your focus is divided, it is almost as if you are at war with yourself. Your forces, instead of being gathered and pressing onward, are rushing in different directions, losing their momentum. Your progress is doomed.
So, we have identified the problem. What, then, is the solution?
Thought. Genuine, purposeful thought.
Whenever I begin to feel this type of mental weakness, I know that I have been ignoring my thinking time. And this case is no different.
I am making time for all sorts of activities, but not purposeful thought, prayer, and meditation.
I am serving others while ignoring myself. And, if that condition persists, I will soon have nothing to offer others.
Even though I blog and write ebooks and practice self development, I am not immune to forgetting that, as Steven Covey teaches in The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, I must “sharpen the saw.” It will not stay sharp with neglect.
Like beautiful orchids, we all need careful tending and feeding.
I need to feel whole.
I believe I’ll start thinking right now.
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You caught me on a day when this message made sense.
Of course, it would have made sense almost every day.
I always find that on days when I begin the day with, say, listening to Holosync for an hour or say, meditate, read over my goals and ask for guidance, my day usually flows easier with less hurdles. Unfortunately, the good things I know to do I often leave undone and then it’s anybody’s guess how the day flows.
I like your reminder about the thinking. I listen to tapes when I walk, I read and do and my “thinking time” is very infrequent.
I’ll take your advice and “deliberately think” more. After all, thoughts are things? Right?
Britt