Balanced Living: Are You Paying Attention to What Matters MOST?
Just a short post today, as I am still recovering from my trip across the country, which mostly amounted to four days of constantly being on the move... while getting almost no sleep.
The situation I helped a friend resolve arose — for the most part — out of a habit of someone always "being very busy and involved" but not really paying attention to what was most important.
It's something we often do, as human beings.
We get extremely involved in all the busy-ness of life, and tell ourselves that we are "getting everything done," but somehow we end up with giant "cognitive blind spots" where we are — in fact — not taking care of the most important things around us.
Often, these situations are quite subtle, and we tend to engage in a kind of "self-deception."
The analogy I like to use is that our house has caught on fire. It's just a small fire, and we work diligently to contain it... and we convince ourselves that we "have it under control."
And perhaps we do manage to keep the fire under control, and it never gets beyond being that small fire in one corner of the house, and we manage to beat it back every time it looks like it might spread.
We even pat ourselves on our backs for "a job well done."
But we're COMPLETELY BLIND to the fact that we are living in a house that's on fire! And there's something fundamentally wrong with agreeing to live in a house that's on fire, and declaring that it is somehow "normal and under control."
Disregarding reality because we don't want to deal with it can become very toxic and even dangerous. And it often takes a close friend or even a qualified mental health professional to get us to "break state" and recognize that something IS really wrong.
If your life seems to be in an eternal state of chaos, ask yourself why it is so.
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