How Do You Start Your Day?

[Ankesh]

One thing is very important: you have to make your own rules.

You should own the rules instead of letting the rules own you.

Having said that - there is a solution Sandi.

Roy H. Williams has written a story in one of his trilogy books:

A friend asks Roy how he can detach himself from work when he leaves the office. How can you stop thinking about work-work-work?

Instead of answering, Roy asks the friend to look outside the window at the garden for 5 minutes. He then asks him to stare at a blank wall for the next 5 minutes.

While the friend is staring at the blank wall - Roy asks: are you thinking about the garden now?

You have to focus on something more interesting than blank wall or your mind will wander back to the garden.

(Written from memory - so there may be errors about details. But the idea behind it remains intact)

Get a hobby that is more exciting than work. This way, boring work and to-do lists won't keep you awake.

Ankesh...thanks, I think...

Prayer works for me...it allows me to put the cares, worries, hassles of the day into a basket and set it aside, in good hands, so I can sleep.

Don't see the logic in the hobby suggestion you made (my plate is so full I can't find it now) but no problem. You've provided lots of good ideas since we 'met' online years ago. Oh...a chance to say 'thank you'...so....THANKS!

Sandi Bowman