Only non-routine thing yesterday was chatting with Pragya. As always, energizing when interacting with her!
I honestly can't wait until I get my own place so I don't have to necessarily think of how loud I'm being in the house at night or whose car is parked furthest back and who's leaving for work the earliest tomorrow or will I have enough space in the fridge. I'm grateful for the situation that I've lived in for the last 8+ months, AND there are parts of it that won't take up time and energy bandwidth when I live alone. Of course, there'll be other distinct things in that situation, but I'm ready for those.
One of the imprints / situations that's happened a fair amount recently is me forgetting to do things outright or momentarily forgetting, getting distracted by another quick task and not getting back to the original task at hand. An imprint that's partly causing this could be that when I pick up my phone, I'll have a purpose for picking it up but I'll get sidetracked by one of the notifications. Then I'll put the phone down. 2 seconds later I recall what I was originally going to do, so then I complete it. But the act of being distracted builds more momentum for more distractions in the future. So what I want to do is when I use my phone for a singular purpose, do that unequivocally first. Then and only then I'll have the 'freedom' to do other stuff on my phone. Even then if I can mentally focus on answering texts or viewing notifications solely and entirely, then it can make my phone usage more purposeful and ultimately reduce the volume and degree to which I'm distracted.
The other imprint that's affecting me more visibly and frequently now is being late or right on time without margin for error to commitments. Couple days ago I was late to a meeting that I was driving in for. I was late yesterday to another call b/c I was chilling with the CEO during lunch. So they just keep 'happening.' Of course, I'm creating all this. When presented with the option of pushing my time margin, I want to be choosing the other option, of being relaxed, at ease, and early to any commitments. Yesterday, I had the option at 7:40 pm to either upload my podcast or make my smoothie before my chat with Pragya at 8. I decided to make the smoothie and be relaxed before the call and even hop on before the meeting time. So hopefully that was the first step to being more aware of the decision impacting my commitments to myself and others.
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