Other than the time it takes to take the picture of the watch featured above, and finish the various media download and upload which is inevitably associated with that… this post took 5 minutes to write. Mom had a great technique for getting us to help clean up (after dinner, before guests came over, etc), by telling us she needed ten honest minutes. No joke, just 10 minutes spent doing nothing but cleaning in your assigned room. Pick up ‘buzzard roosts’, straighten books and other stuff left strewn about, put away the dishes: Didn’t matter what you were cleaning or picking up, just do only that for ten minutes and we were released to whatever other stuff we wanted to go do.
It’s amazing how much we forget that we’re capable of when we are constantly ‘too little butter smeared over too much bread’, as it were. We as humans have an amazing capacity for focused thought, intuition, and creative expression when the extra stuff we’re ‘working on’ or ‘thinking about’ get stripped away. Try it yourself: Take 10 minutes and just work in 1 room. Pick up the out of place things and put them where they’re supposed to go. Clean up, straighten up, and otherwise just set stuff in order. And at the 10 minute point, stop. I think you might be amazed at the level of ‘clean’ which can be accomplished in that sort of time.
Just like the amount of ‘clean thought’ I can put on a page in 5 minutes. Time is up. Off to other things for the day.
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