Challenge 108: Take care of a couple work emails

April 28, 2010

Today has been an absolute packed day. With no chance for breathing room (except at a most lovely dinner in the city with our good friend Ken). It started out this morning with a few minutes of sitting quietly before jumping into coaching, errands, coaching, work, then straight to the city for dinner, crosswords, emails, now blog. Tomorrow looks about the same.

Yesterday the idea was to try to be present. Inherent in that was realizing how much I'm not present. There were moments where I was so not present, it was like I wasn't even the one living my life. Or rather, I was living a couple lives at once. One in my head, and one in reality. It was kind of weird once I noticed I was doing that. So I viewed it as noticing, then bringing myself back, slipping away, coming back. A process. I did try to really look at things around me to become grounded. Seeing the tree. Seeing the water stains on the tunnel walls. Hearing the sounds of the birds and Bart outside my window. Definitely a work in progress.

There were a lot of things I set out to do today, and I did get them all done. There is only thirty minutes left in my day and I'm not sure what kind of challenge to give myself. I'm still in my clothes from the day. I'm really tired. Ready to plop down in bed. I guess it's kind of cheating trying to give myself a challenge to do in the last thirty minutes of my day. I have to pick something I know I'll do! Oh I know. There are some emails I've been meaning to take care of that I was just going to leave til tomorrow. But since tomorrow is just as busy as today, I'll do it now.

Challenge 108: Take care of a couple work emails

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