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Another hot summer day in the desert. I like to run in the mornings but need to walk the dog first. He is more heat sensitive than I am.
Today I woke up late. It was already getting hot outside when I took the dog out. We stepped out of the yard and my dog bolted after a couple of coyotes. Fortunately, he hesitated at an embankment and I was able to get the leash on him.
We finished the walk and it was getting hotter. I put on the running gear and headed out the door.
I run on a lot of dirt and gravel roads and pick up a lot of grit and small pebbles in my shoes. Right away I had to stop and empty my shoes. This is a constant issue and it really annoys me to need to stop.
Of course it happened again right away. I just kept running. My thoughts came around to why this bothered me so much. The sharp jabs hurt, right? Well, as I paid more attention to this, I realized that it did not hurt that bad. In fact, during the past year, I have been walking around the yard barefoot to toughen my feet up a bit. Now that hurt! Inspired by the mountain hike with @MTF where he walked up the mountain without shoes on (sharp rock terrain), I have even run a little bit on the road barefoot.
So why would these grains in my shoe bother me so much? They always have but I could not think of a clear reason. It seems that it always bothered me so I automatically reacted the same way each time.
For the past 10 years, I have been trying to evaluate things that are a bother and figure out how to let them go. Telemarketing calls, rude drivers, routine failures, people, etc.... While I have had some success this, it appears that there are hundreds of little annoyances that get in the way of a peaceful existence.
I finally determined that this grinding in my shoe was only annoying me as a result of how my mind was thinking. I mean, crap, I wake up and run in the heat all through the summer. Yet that is not an annoyance to me. I actually like it. But my mind is trained to think like that.
As I write this the pebble is still in my shoe. It is annoying me no more.
How does this relate to our daily lives and business? Not a breakthrough or anything that will radically change what you accomplish. It can make your day more enjoyable if you can remove some of the little bothers from your thoughts.
Today I woke up late. It was already getting hot outside when I took the dog out. We stepped out of the yard and my dog bolted after a couple of coyotes. Fortunately, he hesitated at an embankment and I was able to get the leash on him.
We finished the walk and it was getting hotter. I put on the running gear and headed out the door.
I run on a lot of dirt and gravel roads and pick up a lot of grit and small pebbles in my shoes. Right away I had to stop and empty my shoes. This is a constant issue and it really annoys me to need to stop.
Of course it happened again right away. I just kept running. My thoughts came around to why this bothered me so much. The sharp jabs hurt, right? Well, as I paid more attention to this, I realized that it did not hurt that bad. In fact, during the past year, I have been walking around the yard barefoot to toughen my feet up a bit. Now that hurt! Inspired by the mountain hike with @MTF where he walked up the mountain without shoes on (sharp rock terrain), I have even run a little bit on the road barefoot.
So why would these grains in my shoe bother me so much? They always have but I could not think of a clear reason. It seems that it always bothered me so I automatically reacted the same way each time.
For the past 10 years, I have been trying to evaluate things that are a bother and figure out how to let them go. Telemarketing calls, rude drivers, routine failures, people, etc.... While I have had some success this, it appears that there are hundreds of little annoyances that get in the way of a peaceful existence.
I finally determined that this grinding in my shoe was only annoying me as a result of how my mind was thinking. I mean, crap, I wake up and run in the heat all through the summer. Yet that is not an annoyance to me. I actually like it. But my mind is trained to think like that.
As I write this the pebble is still in my shoe. It is annoying me no more.
How does this relate to our daily lives and business? Not a breakthrough or anything that will radically change what you accomplish. It can make your day more enjoyable if you can remove some of the little bothers from your thoughts.
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