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Happy Presence - Ep. 459
Fully commit to whatever the task is at hand, join in, be mindful, and get into the swing,
Happy Presence is choosing to be aware of where you are, and deciding to do the thing.
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Ep. 459 - Happy Presence
We begin as always
with the Happy Creed.
We believe in Happy,
in Balance and Growth,
of being Mindful and Grateful,
Compassionate and Understanding.
Yowza
Haha
My Happy Friends!
Whatever you’re doing, commit to it completely, be fully present,
Don’t wish you were somewhere else, it’ll just undermine what you have to do,
Splitting your focus and attention, thus making life unnecessarily unpleasant,
So, even if you don’t get to pick what to do, how you approach it is still up to you.
As I was writing this, I started to get tired, but instead of wishing I could take a break,
I went ahead and took one, setting an alarm for an eight minute power snooze,
Which turned out to be just enough to help me regain my focus and stay awake,
And all because I didn’t try to fight it or wish for something else, all I did was choose.
At right about quitting time at my day job, I was asked to help with a chore,
I like to help whenever I can, in general, but I will admit the timing wasn’t great,
I was trying to finish up some other stuff, but they needed my help a little bit more,
So, I agreed--and as such I fully committed to the goal, as the deadline couldn’t wait.
It would’ve been no good to grumble and drag my feet as that would help no one,
Not them, not me, and certainly not the work at hand, so I set to it as fast as I could,
But pretty soon it was clear that there no time to do all that had to be done,
They needed half a dozen projects in thirty minutes--I’m good, but not that good.
I had to let them know that it’d be tough to even complete one--let alone all,
I wasn’t splitting my focus, or trying to quit, I was doing it, but the clock was ticking,
Then someone realized that even if we missed the deadline the sky wouldn’t fall,
The projects would auto-renew and so there was no need for us to be nit-picking.
So, all of that was for nothing, you may well say--but no, that’s my point, you see,
By fully committing to the task at hand, by joining in and getting into the swing,
I was helpful, fully present and not thinking there was somewhere else I should be,
Happy Presence is choosing to be aware of where you are, and deciding to do the thing.
Haha
Yowza
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Fully commit to whatever the task is at hand, join in, be mindful, and get into the swing,
Happy Presence is choosing to be aware of where you are, and deciding to do the thing.
[full text below]
Ep. 459 - Happy Presence
We begin as always
with the Happy Creed.
We believe in Happy,
in Balance and Growth,
of being Mindful and Grateful,
Compassionate and Understanding.
Yowza
Haha
My Happy Friends!
Whatever you’re doing, commit to it completely, be fully present,
Don’t wish you were somewhere else, it’ll just undermine what you have to do,
Splitting your focus and attention, thus making life unnecessarily unpleasant,
So, even if you don’t get to pick what to do, how you approach it is still up to you.
As I was writing this, I started to get tired, but instead of wishing I could take a break,
I went ahead and took one, setting an alarm for an eight minute power snooze,
Which turned out to be just enough to help me regain my focus and stay awake,
And all because I didn’t try to fight it or wish for something else, all I did was choose.
At right about quitting time at my day job, I was asked to help with a chore,
I like to help whenever I can, in general, but I will admit the timing wasn’t great,
I was trying to finish up some other stuff, but they needed my help a little bit more,
So, I agreed--and as such I fully committed to the goal, as the deadline couldn’t wait.
It would’ve been no good to grumble and drag my feet as that would help no one,
Not them, not me, and certainly not the work at hand, so I set to it as fast as I could,
But pretty soon it was clear that there no time to do all that had to be done,
They needed half a dozen projects in thirty minutes--I’m good, but not that good.
I had to let them know that it’d be tough to even complete one--let alone all,
I wasn’t splitting my focus, or trying to quit, I was doing it, but the clock was ticking,
Then someone realized that even if we missed the deadline the sky wouldn’t fall,
The projects would auto-renew and so there was no need for us to be nit-picking.
So, all of that was for nothing, you may well say--but no, that’s my point, you see,
By fully committing to the task at hand, by joining in and getting into the swing,
I was helpful, fully present and not thinking there was somewhere else I should be,
Happy Presence is choosing to be aware of where you are, and deciding to do the thing.
Haha
Yowza