I’m an expert procrastinator plus 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 place some of my attention on my breathing while I’m engaging in work plus other activities in my annually life so that I don’t lose myself in what I’m doing.
A good warning sign that I’ve lost myself in what I’m doing is when irritation plus anger arise for no obvious reason; in which case I should place some awareness on my breathing to help me be at peace. Working on the laptop, doing HVAC tech stories, plus putting this into practice is entirely a challenge. Another challenge I have right now is my mother-in-law, who’s prowling around the condo with the vacuum cleaner, distracting me from my work. The HVAC company I work for requires a high degree of concentration plus 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 serviceman came in the other day to repair the electric heating system, plus had to escape to a local cafe when I couldn’t sit the interruptions any longer. My mother-in-law is a cleaning maniac plus a tidy tyrant; she drives my girlfriend plus me crazy with her germaphobic obsessiveness. She’s already cleaned the cooling system twice this week, even though there was no need for it. She’s always having a go at us for not being clean plus tidy enough. I guess it’s a matter of perspective since, in our own eyeah, we are undoubtedly clean plus tidy people.