Out of Your Head and into Your Hands…
Your head feels like a small town in America’s Tornado Belt. Twisters keep coming and going. Thoughts whirls at hundreds of miles an hour, damaging some of the structures that kept reality nice and tidy for you. You are at that place again where it has become impossible to control the energy of the demands, the expectations, the dreams and the disappointments.
You are both exhausted and jazzed up - head spinning from the voices competing for your attention, the clamour of the To Do lists, the deadlines rushing at you, the priorities fighting their way to the forefront of your attention.
Sound familiar? Life can get like this pretty easily these days.
One of the best things you can do for your self is to get some of the chaos out of your head and into your hands. In other words, remove it from the realm of THINKING - where it just adds to the morass - and bring it out into the world of DOING, where it can be worked on, changed - maybe even completed or deleted.
Ever looked at a thoroughly messy house and not known where to start? But you told yourself to pick a corner and start cleaning. Pretty soon you could see floor again, dust was giving way to reveal that lovely sheen the furniture used to have and it was possible to move from room to room without tripping over stuff. You found that (strangely) you could breathe easier and more deeply, your stress levels were decreasing, and so on.
Your mind can be like that. Just picking a corner to start in can be a simple step toward taking some of the spin off the tornado. Choose a priority to focus on for a time, a non-essential demand to discard, a day to flee from the chaos in order to get some perspective on it, unfinished business to gain completion on.
