Nothing urgent. No looming due dates. Just stuff that needed to be done sometime, and that "sometime" happened to be yesterday.
As I worked, though, a concern cropped up that I was wasting my time. After all, I had other tasks to complete, ones that arguably were more important or pressing.
I'm so focused on time!
I try to cram as much productivity into all waking hours, feeling as if I'm squandering a precious commodity with any action or task that falls outside of the realm of being purposeful. But sometimes I can't live according to the clock. I've got to live in the moments, too.
The truth is, I enjoyed the odds-and-ends I completed yesterday. None of them advanced today's to-do list, but each brought its own pleasure.
Sometimes, that's enough.
It's nice to have those productive days. I always feel a sense of relief when I complete various tasks.
ReplyDeleteWishing you more happily productive days.
xoxo
I love my days of just doing "nothing". I wish everyone could experience one of those :) Great post
ReplyDeleteSometimes its more than enough, in fact, its essential that we don't always live in the 'doing' mode. I'm learning more and more to not be a slave to tasks and 'doing', but to be by enjoying deeply a 15 min cup of coffee, drinking in the beauty around me and not just the coffee, indulging in reading a novel BEFORE bedtime (whoa, steady on!) because its essential for our soul and for the being/heart/soul in us that is actually essential for our spiritual walk. Stop me, i'm starting to write a blog post! As you can tell, i've started the journey of Mindfulness. Will write a post about it once I've lived it a bit more. But in short, don't apologise for these days. Embrace them.
ReplyDeleteI love your miniature blog post here! I love that you're learning to replace the "doing" with the "being." (Novels before bedtime -- how wonderful!) Thank you for sharing!
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