Here you come a creeping
Tightening bands around my head
Flowing down my shoulders
Restricting
Constricting
Ravaging
My chest
And there I go sending
Sending you away
Breathing deep
And dusting all your clingy fingers away
The tendrils still crawl towards me
But I stamp upon their fronds
I’m aware that you’re a channel
Switch the dial
Move on
Write the tasks down carefully
And move down with a tick
That is all the thought I grant them
When they start to pile on thickly
Gathering
Knocking
Me first
Me!
Me!
Me!
Get in line you bitches
I have a red pen
We shall do this my way
Now
Then
First
On my list is
Number 1
You may come in
Sit down
My brain will see you now
First day back after even a short break and you have to wonder – was it worth it? The deluge of emails – the gigantic task list with everything needing to be done yesterday. I used to feel so overwhelmed – still do – if I don’t tune out of that particular stressful channel and into awareness instead.
This is my process:
Tune out of the stress and instead write everything down in a diary that needs to be done. Do this in as detached a fashion as you can manage.
Prioritise.
Move through the list.
A few helpful things to remember:
Don’t accept monkeys that are not yours.
Very important!!
Once you have separated your monkeys from other peoples please ensure that they don’t try to disguise their monkeys as drama that is not yours either
Are you worrying about monkeys that are out there in the jungle that you can’t even see? I do that too but until they enter your circus you really cannot allocate them a seat.
Leave them be – they will come in
or not
when they are ready
And remember – like the poem above says – queue those thought bitches and keep them in line. Stress is caused by thinking not doing and doing is the only thing that gets things done so just do and don’t think until it is safe to do so.
This is of course mainly a note to self – I took time out of my schedule to prioritise my thoughts and my first thought, my greatest thought today is
This
Crap
Is
Not
Going
To
Disturb
My
Peace
Of
Mind
Thought I’d share however as aside from our individual acts – there is one hell of a big circus tent out there and we all suffer from time to time!
XxOX
