What’s Picking Away at Your Peace of Mind? (Weekly Challenger 6/23/2008)
Once I wrote in the Weekly Challengers, “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, then you’ve never been in a bedroom with a mosquito.”
Well, I am in my office with a very loud and persistent fly - and it won’t land long enough for me to swat it with my flyswatter.
It’s such a little thing, and yet terribly annoying, wearing, and disruptive. I’m trying to write, here! I can feel that buzzing eroding away at my concentration and focus. It’s easier to put aside big challenges and concerns than it is to ignore that fly.
We all have buzzing flies in our lives, dragging our attention from what is really important, picking away at our peace of mind, tugging at our attention like a cranky three year old. Some coaching schools call them tolerations. This week, take a look at what little things in your life are sapping your focus, your energy, your fun. How can you get rid of some of them?
July 6th, 2008 at 4:20 am
The little voice in my head reminds me of my dreams not yet fulfilled. Sometimes I kid myself that I have an interesting life anyway. In a less busy moment I notice someone having the social life I want, or creating the patchwork quilt that I know I could make and the little voice begins again.
I am grateful for that little voice. It reminds me not to settle for half a life. Sometimes, I’m envious of others who can settle - for a job that bores them but that they know well as they’ve been in it for years, who are content to only do housework and not strive to fit in time for a hobby as well as housework, who are content with their current level of money, whereas I feel the need to have more, and to be more as a person.
For now, I have so much pulling at me I’ve put my patchwork quilt project on hold. In three months time when a new job is aligned with my skills I will return to quilting again.