WHERE ARE MY GLASSES?

I have a pair of reading glasses that I really love. They are very light weight, which is a good thing as I tend to find things sitting on my nose irritating after awhile.

The other day I couldn't find them. They had disappeared. Shortly before I noticed they were gone they were woven through the front of the sweater I was wearing and now they're gone.

I retraced my steps and looked everywhere I remembered I had been during the course of the morning. Nada - nothing - borscht.

That day I was working with a colleague who was supporting me on a project I am doing. I found myself distracted by the missing glasses. I have other glasses, but none as light and as comfortable, or as expensive, as the pair that had gone missing.

I kept walking into the question, "Where are my glasses?" and off my mind was searching for the glasses rather than fully attending to what I was doing.

I find this is true in many areas of my life. When I leave something undone, incomplete, there is an energy pull wanting to complete the action. In the case of the missing glasses that drain of energy was apparent.

What about you? What has your experience been with things left undone, agreements not fulfilled, calls not made, clothes not put away, etc.?

Have you ever noticed that when you do what you say you were going to do, and cross it off your list, that you experience a burst of energy?

I love working with clients, whether one-to-one or in my Living by Design groups, and hearing stories about little actions that made big differences. Taking action, following through, completing what we have already set in motion brings a level of energy and focus that fuels us. This is energy we can invest in doing more of what we really want. This energy feels good.

While I was cleaning up from making tea on a break from the project, still talking about my missing glasses, even challenging myself to look in the refrigerator to see if I had deposited them in there, I opened the dishwasher to find my glasses! There they were where they apparently had landed after falling out of my sweater earlier in the morning.

Boy was I relieved. And finally my mind was at peace. When I returned to my desk my full attention was present with what I was doing.

Ahhh - the joy of completion.

QUOTES

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the 
hanging on of an uncompleted task." 
  ~ William James ~

"Incomplete things also tie up energy. Look at all 
your unread books, and declare them complete. 
Guilt -- let go of it, right now. Keep around you only 
the things that give you energy." 
  ~ John-Roger ~

WONDER QUESTION:

Where are your glasses? Are you fully present in your life?

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