Come to find out, I may not be a lazy oaf at all! Maybe I had an internal knowing that pushed me to do things I couldn’t understand!
I was reading an article this morning about something called ‘the 5 hour rule’. The author said that many successful people, break up their day by doing something completely unrelated to their work. Even when they are under strict deadlines and don’t have a moment to spare. They step away and focus on something new. Read, write, learn about something they are unfamiliar with. Some just take quiet time and allow random thoughts to take their mind wherever it wants to go!
I am sure there are other aspects of this ‘5 hour rule’ that I missed. But I liked reading this part! Probably because I do this all the time!
Most of the time I am working on something and I am fully engaged. Then out of the blue, I find myself on an unrelated website, reading an article, or searching for an inspirational image of god-only-knows what! Perhaps I distract myself with conversation. Sometimes light and playful. Other times philosophical.
But unlike the super smart or successful people that do this with intention and use it as a way to grow. I chastise myself. I have held it as a form of procrastination or an unnecessary distraction. I have even wondered if these breaks were were a sign of some weakness or lack of discipline!
How freeing to think that when our mind needs a break, it takes one. That too much time spent focused on one thing actually requires us to focus on something else as a form of relief!
I took a deep breath just reading about it.
This goes hand in hand with another thought that has stayed with me lately. We are expanding and evolving whether we are aware of it or not. And there is no way to fail. Think about that: NO WAY TO FAIL.
We are absolutely creating and having the experiences we need to take us to the next place on our journey. Even when we think we are going in circles, there are new levels of awareness that are being layered in to our being. We are becoming more of who we are. Each pass of a situation or experience informs the next choice we will make.
Both of these concepts feel particularly freeing for me right now. I have a tendency to be critical or hard on myself if I think I am off track or purpose. The same is true when I find myself repeating a lesson I thought I had learned.
Most of us are our own worst critics. Isn’t it nice to find a couple of areas where we can let ourselves off the hook?
We all navigate our journeys in unique and unusual ways. That is how it is suppose to be. It doesn’t matter how someone else found success, love, health, beauty, passion or purpose. Each of us will find them in our own way, on our own terms.
But as of this moment, I will see my forays into distraction as part of my creative process. AND no matter what I do, I will still be learning and evolving. So there is no way to fail!
With Light, Love, and Laughter
Charles
Charles, this is so insightful, thank you for sharing. I just had one of those moments where I was guided to read this post, so I could accept and allow my brain’s process and stop chastising myself for following cultural false programming about the “correct” way of being productive. So validating too! Reminds me of Abraham-Hicks quote, “you’re never going to get it all right, and you’re never going to get it all done.” We are limitless and infinite beings who need to be easier with ourselves and allow expansion. Love, light & laughter to you!
I am glad it resonated with you Allison! And thanks for sharing the quote. It’s so true! Thanks for staying connected!
Charles” Thank you for your message – this was meant for me. I have been beating u myself because I used to think that I should be doing something every minute of the day to enhance my spiritual growth but inevitable I will move into something else quite unrelated and at the end of the day I would feel so guilty and sometime would take that guilt to my bed. Thank you! thank you! thank you! for this timely message. This is the first time I have read your article s early in the morning – Divine Intervention. Love and Light to you.
We can be our own worst enemies Acellia.., right? When we judge ourselves, become self-critical, even hold ourselves to a standard we would never hold anyone else to! I am glad you found some relief by reading this post. And one thing I am learning these days is that everything we do is part of spiritual growth. Our minds just want to take over and tell us what is spiritual and what is not! Yesterday I played water volleyball with a bunch of friends. We laughed, teased, joked and wore ourselves out physically! It was one of the spiritual highlights of my week!
Thanks for being here with me and thanks for sharing!
Charles, so wonderful, and like Allison, I was reminded of Abraham…”you can’t do it wrong, you’ll never get it done, and the purpose of your life is joyful expansion”! You are clearly living your purpose and inspiring others to do so along the way!
Ahh… Thank you Vikki! That means a lot coming from you! Thanks for being part of my journey!
Dear Charles, When you finally get to believing, no KNOWING that you are god then your only realization will be I am All-That-Is – there is nothing that I am not. And even though currently I am living a script of limitation, that script was created to maneuver your focus in such a way that you come back to the realization that you are god. When you know yourself to be God you will know that all your limiting, negative thought about yourself and your actions are just illusions/were never true – for you are all possibility and potential. All along it has only been your thoughts or your acceptance of other’s thoughts about yourself that have limited you [comparing your life to another’s is a guarantee to remaining stuck in limitation]. See, there is No Way to Fail; only experience.
Thanks Joseph!
I can totally relate to this! Thank for for saying it’s OK to relax a bit, and let your intuition guide you through this process, and to be OK with others doing this as well!
Glad to hear Rachel… We all need to keep reminding one another! Thanks for being here!