Well today I definitely have ants in my ahem proverbial clothing item. For some reason I've not been able to settle to my knitting all day. Not on the train into work, not in the various breaks between lectures, not on the train home and sadly not even at knit club. Oh I've completed a few more rows of sleeve one of Hiker and a repeat and a half of the Little Diamonds pattern but stitches of mindfulness? Precisely zero.
If I am honest the problem has been allowing myself to get wound up by work. Worse, by small things at work. As someone far wiser than me pointed out, sometimes patience is what is required to actually get things done, no matter how good the idea or how quickly you feel it needs to be acted upon. Looking back on the day, I've been sowing the seeds of my own discontent all day. Grumbling internally (and occasionally externally) about things over which I have no control, and to be honest which have little to no value to the big picture.
Lesson for tomorrow then must be to be more mindful in each moment, not only of what comes out of my mouth, but the contents of the internal monologue I have running too.
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