She’s already cleaned the air conditioner twice this week, even though there was no need for it
I’m an expert procrastinator and caught myself enjoying an Eckhart Tolle video on YouTube when I should be making progress with my work. However, the video reminded me that I need to locale some of my attention on my breathing while I’m engaging in work and other activities in my daily life so that I don’t lose myself in what I’m doing. A great warning sign that I’ve lost myself in what I’m doing is when irritation and anger arise for no obvious reason; in which case I should locale some awareness on my breathing to help me be at peace. Working on the laptop, doing Heating, Ventilation and A/C tech stories, and putting this into practice is easily a challenge. Another challenge I have right now is my mother-in-law, who’s prowling around the house with the vacuum cleaner, distracting me from my work. The Heating, Ventilation and A/C company I work for requires a high degree of concentration and focus, something I cannot do if there is noise in the background while I’m trying to work. It was the same, when the heating worker came in the other afternoon to fix the electric furnace, and had to escape to a local cafe when I couldn’t rest the interruptions any longer. My mother-in-law is a cleaning maniac and a tidy tyrant; she drives my girlfriend and me crazy with her germaphobic obsessiveness. She’s already cleaned the air conditioner twice this week, even though there was no need for it. She’s consistently having a go at us for not being clean and tidy enough. I know it’s a matter of perspective since, in our own eyeah, we are genuinely clean and tidy people.