Introduction
Life Is Hard
I took a deep breath and looked at the mountain of laundry that I myself have managed to pile up in only a two week time span.
To think that only two weeks ago I was prepacking my outfits for the week in giant freezer bags. Meticulously picking out what I would wear each day of the week right down to matching socks and underwear before the week even began.
I had the whole process down to a finely tuned 10 minutes that also involved folding and sorting the laundry for a week. One smooth 10 minute action that solved 2 of my biggest morning problems. What to wear, and how to find it.
This one very easy action made my days smoother. They started with less stress and gave me the freedom to think less first thing in the morning while still showing up for work looking half decent enough.
The world at work has more than enough stress right now without adding to the struggle by having to muddle through my own chaos of clothing clutter to find something to commit to for a whole day.
The season changed as it always does, and the clothing I had worked into such a wonderful way of life was no longer comfortable to wear. Meaning that I have to put away the winter clothes and organize the summer clothes. The change has me frozen in indecision. That really easy system fell apart on me again.
Making due over the week I have worn what clothes I can pick up out of the pile and dressed in the shame of my own non-action and indecision. I have been starting the days already a little drained and stressed from my entanglement with the pile.
The weight of that shame grows heavier, almost as if each article of clothing gains a pound everyday I don’t deal with it. The pile of laundry grows taller every week that I can’t lift the weight of that shame and indecision.
The weight of that pile grows and spreads to the rest of the house leaving me feeling trapped under it.
I like it outside. I can’t see it outside. There’s different piles of shame and indecision outside but thankfully I seem to be ready for those ones right now.
I tell myself I don’t have the time but in all honesty it’s not the time, I have that and choose to use it doing other things as far away from that pile as possible. It’s not the ambition I lack. Ambition keeps me awake at night and drives me through desire to other things with so much obsessive passion that I lose the ability to do what is important here and now.
The problem is my brain. I hate to admit it, I rather like my brain. Most of the time we enjoy each other's company and it allows me to experience things in a different way from some of the other people in my life as I am starting to notice.
What my brain does not do however is things it is not ready to do. My brain is not ready for spring and the wishy washy weather that comes with it and until I wrote these words I had no idea why this simple thing had suddenly become so hard.
It’s simple now that I can see the problem. All I have to do is choose a few cooler weather clothes to keep out and put out the warm weather ones that can be easily layered.
The idea has suddenly become appealing and I can feel the stirring of ambition getting ready to pounce. It vibrates from deep inside me driving me from my bones. Thankfully I have learned to remember the moment of inspiration so that the moment of passion is not lost and I can give into the wave of relief and exhaustion from the profoundly stressful day I had a work.
The sky is falling around me and my already fragile attention span is being tested to its utmost limits.Today I’m grateful for medication but I’m worried about the impact it will have on my body.
Life is hard. In fact I don't believe there is such a thing as an easy life; however, I hope this book will help make your life easier.
For most of us life can be broken up into a set of fairly mundane routines. Most of those routines have aspects that do not need to be completed every day. In fact many pieces of our daily routines can be pre-done and ready for us to make those routines faster and easier.
Not everyone will find the same routine cheats helpful. As you will see in the following pages our brains all work differently so we will all have different points of resistance in our day-to-day activity. The secret to unlocking the key cheats to making your life easier is to pay attention and notice what your points of resistance are.
In this book we're going to look at working through points of resistance and all seven pillars of health using the eight steps to feeling better.
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