You’re not the boss of me!
There are so many things vying, or rather screaming, for our attention and our time, and if we don't pay close attention, we may not give attention to the things we really want to give our attention to. Each of us holds power to decide what and how we spend our energy and to what we give to our commodity of time? We have to step off the conveyer belt every now and again, so we can experience pause, breath and usher in acuity.
You're not the boss of me! Let's reclaim a bit of that rebellious child!
Last week, I shared about my knitting pastime, a-hem, obsession. While I've been told, I perhaps may not fit the stereo-typical-knitter, there is something quite therapeutic for me in this space. Pause. It also has brought me to a heightened awareness of time and my choice in how I spend it. While we all hold responsibilities as adults and we don't always get to choose our favorite things to do all day long, we do choose our attitude about them and what and how we do the whole rest of our hours inside each day, week and month. I can oftentimes feel the pulling in so many directions, become overwhelmed and succumbing to exhaustion, give up my power of choice and intention to living my best life. Hello phone scroll. My rebellious nature isn't a fan of that. It just doesn't feel good.
When you roll out your mat you are actually carving out a sweet pause for yourself. You've also rolled open your mind and heart to learn something new about life, your patterns, yourself. You've chosen to step off the conveyer belt, collect yourself for pause and acuity. When you do that, you can step back into your life more focused and creative.
Life is busy. We have more distractions than perhaps ever. Our hand holding personal and portable power house palm warmers keep us scrolling, stressed out and easily becoming the boss of us.
I'm using that little clock timer on my palm warmer.
I've started assigning time to chores, my work projects, time with friends, podcast listening, news consumption. And yes, I'm setting a timer when I knit. Since setting time slots, I've also become much more discerning as to what is worthy of my time, so I can live my best life. I've acquired acuity toward what I don't need and doesn't serve me well and I've been better able to let those things go. I've noticed when I assign a chunk of time to a particular item in my day, I can be very connected to it without the distraction of all the "other things" needing to be attended to, because they too, have their space and time. I am more fully engaged with the task at hand, efficient in it and find the work far more rewarding. I'm the boss of me!
Join me in the rebellion.
Jill