Aging With Grace: Thinking Time
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 12:00AM This coming Sunday there are no discipleship classes at church so I will not be teaching Sunday night. My tech princess has no Friday classes, so there is less to homeschool this week. I am canceling everything else I can. I need thinking time.
Thinking time, I’ve realized isn’t so much about sitting and thinking as it is removing those thoughts that are cluttering my mind. Thought removal evidently takes time I usually don’t have in my “normal” routine.
There are some good friends I just haven’t had time to see. I have one lunch and one breakfast visit schedule all ready. There are a couple of friend I will call and see if I can invite myself over for coffee. I will be 2 pound heavier but a lot happier by next week.
The fridge coils are getting a good vacuuming this week. The kitchen needs more than a surface cleaning, that is on the schedule also. I am getting distracted by my need to get those minor tasks completed. The problem with a minor task is it never gets to the top of the to-do list. Hanging at the bottom of the list is an ever-growing underclass of neglected tasks until what were a few minor undone tacks is now a major distraction.
There are no extra posts in my blog bank. I am distracted by having nothing on hand if something comes up. Writing posts is part of decluttering my mind.
My desk has turned from a catch all into the Twilight Zone. Things go on it and disappear. I have to dezone my desk because the accumulated chaos (as opposed to the constant disorder, which doesn’t bother me at all) is taking up space in my mind making it hard to think. This would not be a problem if I owned a laptop and could create brilliance somewhere other than the room with the Twilight Zone desk. I am going to have to devote some though time as to why I am the only female in this household that doesn’t have her own person mobile computer!
You see, thinking time is beginning to pay off.
Anything taking up valuable space in your mind?
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Reader Comments (4)
Crazy customers and insane teenagers are taking up WAY TOO MUCH valuable space in my mind - and for once, the teenager in question, isn't mine!
I am of the same mind. I walk from room to room each day and rattle off the same tasks that have needed to be done for six months! But the immediate needs (laundry, cooking, etc. and my addictive Mac game) take up my time. I did one of the put-off tasks this past weekend and I cannot stop admiring my handiwork, you would have thought I designed, built and furnished the house singlehandedly. It was a superhuman effort. Now, if I could apply this joy to the other 99 tasks...
It seemed before my trip I had plenty of time. Plenty of time for work, family and even to post in my blog a couple of times a week. Now that I'm back it seems like I barely have time to breathe.
What's that about? How do you catch up once you fall off the merry-go-around?
The only thing taking up valuable space in my mind at the moment is making plans for my vaction to the Dominican Republic in December.
I know a lot of people that can't leave their work at their workplace and are forever thinking about work .. I'm not like that .. when I leave work everything work-related stays at work.
I'm also not one that can plan ahead what I'm going to write about in my blog. I mostly just sit down and write but it's nice to have a clear mind to be able to do so.