Focus is hard even when one thing sits in front of you. The logistics of a busy life? Focus is a hopeless quest.
Via negativa.
In the last two days the number of things on my plate mushroomed.
Via negativa.
In business, I’m working extremely slowly and with great care through the course lessons right now. If I can do what the course lessons promise, I can achieve a level of freedom from the barrage.
Meanwhile, I let the fires burn, while maintaining a firebreak around the new world I seek to build.
Maybe a juggler metaphor is better. People are throwing more balls at you. Don’t catch them. That’s hard for the ego to take. It’s hard for the people-pleaser in me.
That’s what the teacher tells me to do. Let the fires blaze. Understand the lessons extremely well at the foundational level. Apply them once, in a small way. That is the way out of the Life of Fire.
Via negativa.
Nota bene. I am doing all of this to me. None of this is anyone else’s fault.