Yesterday I asked the question of whether work and busyness were the cure for anxiety. Today I woke up feeling incredibly worried about money and my job, which are not going well at the moment. This worry was probably mainly due to the fact that yesterday evening I did my accounts for the first time […]
Is work the cure for anxiety?
I’m reading Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gayle. I’m only at the start of it and he’s describing how the protagonist’s mother and father met. Both of them are servants and he describes how hard their work is, their lives are, with very little time off, and falling into bed exhausted at night. Last Thursday evening […]
Struggles with indistractability
So I’m really struggling with this timeblocking idea, and also with the whole idea of being indistractable. I woke up this morning and I felt kind of depressed, actually. I just wasn’t looking forward to the day at all. I think the reason is that I feel boxed in by having a schedule, having to […]
Distraction and internal triggers
Yesterday, I took an introductory seminar on MindValley.com, given by Nir Eyal, author of the book Indistractable. The topic was learning how to be indistractable, namely, doing what we say we are going to do. The premise is that we either spend our time on traction activities, which move us towards our goals, or distraction […]
Letting go of grievances
Today’s lesson in A Course in Miracles, lesson 68, says “Love holds no grievances”. The meaning is that if we are to be happy and fulfil our purpose of being love, being light, creating and experiencing miracles, we must drop our grievances. It’s the only way. And we’re encouraged to spend time seeking out all […]
Reviewing the blog so far
Today, I was going to write a review of my blog so far. I started going back through the posts and the first thing I noticed was that it’s really hard to navigate through the posts. So my first point of action is to make sure that all the blog posts have the date of […]