Was sent a web address recently for Sheik Bukhari. He is a Muslim working for World Peace and amongst other things I really liked something he had written at the end of one of the pages.
“No basis of religion asks people to kill each other. If we are all going to love each other in the end, why wait until then?”
Whatever our faith, colour or creed, thinking like this must be the only way we can all live in peace together.
Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we feel we need to say something about someone’s behaviour or the standard of a particular service. Sometimes it is important that we are able to put across our point but quite often the old adage of counting to ten really is a better way to handle things. In fact if we wait for 24 hours it is surprising how that all important comment we needed to make just does not seem so important any more.
Maybe that slight we took from someone can be explained by our own sensitivity or the other person’s problems. If a pebble is thrown into a pool it will make ripples but if we decline to throw our own pebble in then those ripples will soon die down. EFT is remarkably effective in helping us let go of these sorts of irritations and allow us to stand back and see how they are really not worth wasting our energy on. Literally a minute or two will nearly always be all we need to “tap it out of our system. It certainly beats carrying the “hurt” around with us for 24 hours.
Just been reading about a technique called “timeboxing”. I don’t think the concept is new even if the title is but it is still worth reminding ourselves of it anyway.
Hands up those who don’t suffer from procrastination? Well obviously I can’t see how many hands are up but there again you can’t see mine but I think 99% of us will have our hands in the air. (including me)
The concept is that to get yourself started (and that is always the hard part) choose a task or just a part of a task and give yourself, say, 30 minutes on it. Then choose a reward that you will get afterwards. This carrot and stick approach should soon get you started and the thought of a reward should keep you at your task for the alloted time.
The interesting thing about starting a task is that once we get going we often become so engrossed in it that we end up doing it for a lot longer than we set out to do. Once we actually get going our attention will switch to completing the current task. In fact we may even go on to a new one when we have finished the first one.
So there you have it. Easy. Before you know it not only have you managed to get started on something but you will probably have achieved more than you set out to!
You know – I think this is so simple but it works. I’m off for my reward now!