When we are driving, we have intention.
We want something.
We want to stop being where we are.
We want to be some place else.
Much of the time, for many people, it’s easy to go with the flow.
There are other times, when we’re running late, when others rely on us or, perhaps when our progress has been frustrated that aggression and hostility creep into the picture.
Neither hostility nor aggression magically open up room on the road.
My car is not equipped with guided missiles on my bumper to help move along slow moving traffic. If your vehicle has this feature, please let me know where I can have it added to mine.
Want to clear the road with The Magic Wand of Denial?
I’m not so sure that would be effective.
The worst part about hostility and aggression on the road is that those feelings can stick around.
Sometimes, when these come up do a pretty good job of avoiding the hostility and aggression trap.
Other times, when we’re inconvenienced, impeded or desperate for an opening, and we face red lights at every turn.
The real enemy here is our sense that we can control the outcome when we leave on any journey.
This is true with your career, your business and your drive to the office.
It’s like the old saying goes:
It’s better to swallow a watermelon than to tap dance on landmines.
Ah, the someplace else.
I have been reading over the Christmas break. Reading for my benefit. I am admittedly a self-improvement enthusiast. Actually, I am just an improvement enthusiast and I am with me a lot; in body, mind and spirit, and starting with the man in the mirror strikes home. This daily foolsletter has helped me keep my focus on improvement as well.
Whether it's improving a design, a recipe, a process, a house, another person's skill or business or just the energy in a room; I am in. I have recently relearning that focus is a superpower and mine has wavered in recent years. Making a choice to be somewhere and stay there with focus, can yield magical results. The car, as a metaphor for moving to somewhere else and distraction...not now, I have someplace to go ... symbolizes how I have gotten off track, by being on a track constructed of daily urgency.
At the start of the year, a bold resolution to get undone jobs done. The weight of them, in space and emotion, has taken it's toll. So Sundays are now rest/old project day. Only have had two of them so far...but I finished the things I planned to do. Even with about 4 hours of helping other people yesterday, I refocused and put in the time. Yesterday's thing got done. It's been sitting for six months, as were the previous week's things. And they are done. I didn't get in the metaphorical car yesterday to go somewhere else. Well, actually I did. But I made it a short drive and I parked myself with the undone after supper. Heck, I even made cookies to celebrate its doneness and did some bonus work that is designated for Saturdays. We can waste a lot of fuel driving from one area of interest to another. By keeping focused on the undones that are in the same general area, we enjoy a shorter commute and spend less time in the car. Already have next Sunday planned. Just need a good parking spot.