Have you ever had a day neatly planned out to accomplish your specific and essential goals (work, family time, exercise, leisure, writing or reading, volunteerism, whatever) and you have eagerly begun BUT your phone or Blackberry/iPhone rings or texts you suddenly? EMERGENCY!
...and your perfect day is derailed.
What happened? Your child threw up in the lunchroom and needs to be picked up NOW. There's a leak in your bathroom floor, the tenant downstairs is complaining, the landlord is calling, the super needs to get in NOW. The sewer pipe in your 89-year-old investment duplex in Syracuse burst with the winter cold - call the plumber, call the property manager, reassure the tenant or put them up in a motel, fix it NOW. A diabetic family member is rushed to ICU, blood sugar crashed or soaring, get there NOW. A friend calls crying because they broke up with their boyfriend of four years, reassure them NOW. A colleague contacts you about an urgent project when you have 25 other top-priority projects on your desk already, get theirs done NOW.
Does any of this sound familiar? So what's the point? The issue is not the time it takes to take care of whatever has occurred. Life happens. It's inevitable. The problem is that it shatters our focus and distracts us from the underlying values, goals and dreams that were the foundation for our day's plans.
If you are anything like me, it's disappointing and discouraging to look at my essential to-do list for TODAY and have to move everything to TOMORROW. Tomorrow already has its own essential actions to be taken. Piling on Today's does not help.
What Can Be Done?
Evaluate your own priorities and values beforehand and act with those in mind. Otherwise, you will find yourself ricocheting around like a bb in a tin can to somebody else's urgent needs. Here are your options:
Act NOW
Delegate NOW
Negotiate NOW
Schedule Appointment NOW
Decline NOW
It does not always have to be YOU! But, if ACT NOW to address the emergency aligns with your fundamental values, goals and dreams, reschedule today's essential actions to a different day. Forgive yourself for not finishing everything and move on. Superman and Superwoman only exist in the movies and you are doing exactly what you are meant to do TODAY.
Showing posts with label forgiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forgiveness. Show all posts
Friday, October 2, 2009
Monday, September 29, 2008
Joyful Meditation
Every morning when I wake up, I meditate. What I practice daily since I learned it in 2000 is a combination of prayer and meditation. I would consider myself more spiritual than religious although I have friends in many countries, practicing many religions. I can learn something from anyone who follows a path of light. There is no one right way, in my opinion. This road just suits me and as spiritual healing for others became part of it, more and more. I came to it partly because my father was dying of cancer and I longed for a non-medical way to ease his pain. THAT didn't work because he was never open to it but I was hooked from the start.
Some mornings, I've been so worried in the night that my jaw aches from grinding my teeth, bruxism, they call it. In my meditation, love flows down to me and through me from Mother Father Creator God until I am completely filled to overflowing. In the enormity of love, there is no room to be afraid. I am lightheaded and lighthearted with relief. I begin thinking about others, instead of just myself, my husband, family, friends, colleagues and community. I remember solutions to problems that I had forgotten.
Focused outside my own problems and concerns, I glow with the light of being even more fully who I am. I have a vision of what can be beyond what is in this moment. I yearn and move to the reality I am dreaming and begin to realize it. I am buffered by my meditation so events of the day, angry words, ugly sights or sounds, unhappy feelings, have to get through all that love to get to me. And if I forgive happenings, people or events as they occur, they don't stick to me and repeat over and over until I release them. Love and forgiveness are the cornerstone techniques that have changed my life these last eight years. I am grateful. What a gift!
Some mornings, I've been so worried in the night that my jaw aches from grinding my teeth, bruxism, they call it. In my meditation, love flows down to me and through me from Mother Father Creator God until I am completely filled to overflowing. In the enormity of love, there is no room to be afraid. I am lightheaded and lighthearted with relief. I begin thinking about others, instead of just myself, my husband, family, friends, colleagues and community. I remember solutions to problems that I had forgotten.
Focused outside my own problems and concerns, I glow with the light of being even more fully who I am. I have a vision of what can be beyond what is in this moment. I yearn and move to the reality I am dreaming and begin to realize it. I am buffered by my meditation so events of the day, angry words, ugly sights or sounds, unhappy feelings, have to get through all that love to get to me. And if I forgive happenings, people or events as they occur, they don't stick to me and repeat over and over until I release them. Love and forgiveness are the cornerstone techniques that have changed my life these last eight years. I am grateful. What a gift!
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