# Daily Updates #

Only dead fish go with the flow...... 

your life is like a river, if you go with the flow you will suffer less. If you resist change by hanging on to a rock the river just pulls and pushes on you more. 

The aim is to go with the flow dont hang on to the banks

Zen/Tao advice

Round trip to the chemist - 40 min walk - to get my script. I really need to start regular exercising again. 

Upgrading memory on PC - I may make building one a project. Could be good to lose myself in some practical techie stuff and do something new.

Now I'm slowing down and not ignoring how I feel I'm starting to realise how prickly I feel around people. Major jitters before I left the house - which I didn't realise until I stopped to check in with myself. A lot of the psychological churn I think is trying to rationalise people because I think if I can find an answer to whatever I can somehow protect myself from something by doing a thing.

The fact is, some things just "are". I always seem to struggle to let go of those. 

End of week. It's been hard but I'm relaxed. All deadlines, including shifting ones, met. This is where I'm at my best. By the sound of things there's going to be a project follow-up but that can go on without me. I missed the last conversation on it after I did the final report and I've just realised how much I'm not interested in where it goes now.

No headaches. No shoulder/neck tension. And I don't feel exhausted. 

Finished the final two episodes of the Stand. Last one felt tacked one. Series was worth watching though - and some Stephen King books have arrived today. Trying to get back into fiction and not just factual stuff all the time. Really enjoyed reading Camus "The Plague" and "The Outsider" a while back when I was signed off so this looks like a good move.

slow but sure

Don't think I could mindfullly eat a hot cross bun! Thats good when your mindfulness becomes more automatic.

i am starting to do the same now i slowed down eating some hot cross buns today :)  My walking meditation is slowing way down as well, automatically, not consciously. 

busy day sold 2 pigs and 2 more lambs born ,very stressed everything changing to fast.

Only just joining  this thread. It's nice to see what people have been up to Did mindful eating for tea. .. Ate my meal in 23 minutes instead of the usual five.

Tidied my room, sent confidential waste to my uncle's for incineration and will go for a walk this evening with a friend.

Earlier, this afternoon, I posted a CD - for my Artist friend - and collected a prescription from the out-of-hours Doctor for antiviral cream; don't ask why. ;)

I use timesheets on a personal level.

standard day with standard amount of work done. Our time sheet software fell over this morning and hasnt recovered yet  

I'm about halfway through and enjoying it enough to buy the book. 

Today someone thanked me for the coaching I gave them for a job application a couple of years back. They're now two steps up on the career ladder. 

That kind of made my day.

No one comes, as scheduled.

What's really annoying?    The skip is still here.  

Day of rest, after exertion yesterday.

The terraced bungalow I wanted to view in Moneymore has been sold, and the bungalows in Ballymena and Jordanstown I expressed interest in are too expensive.

Also, I put on four and a half pounds this week. Not the end of the world, but it summed up a stressful few days.

My online friend from Toronto said that she saw the Stand. She thought that it began well, but died down a bit.

Damn!

Sometimes, Hell REALLY IS other people.

We got a passive-aggressive note from the skip company saying we've had the skip too long so they are collecting today - I thought my builder was supposed to be liaising with them - obviously not.     Made sure it was topped off with any old crap to get our money's worth.