Focus! Getting the Squirrels Out of Your Head

Focus? Hmmm . . . you didn't see my glasses anywhere, did you? They're not where I usually leave them. What is the question again?

Psst your glasses are on top of your head.

Im still trying to figure out what the big deal about "mindfulness" is all about.

IIs our population so strung out that they need instructions?

Apparantly.

It's called "Making a BIG DEAL Out of Every ******* Thing Syndrome"

Wow, who'd of thunk it? Relax with a hobby.

"Practice" your hobby often?
Great, an invitation to schedule a time to do something you like, for X amount of time, so you can stress and have guilt over whether or not you were able to accomplish it.

I'll never forget a topic of A2K where the subject was childrens "Play Dates", I term I abhor. I was asking what the difference was between that and "I'm going over to a friends house to play." I also asked when kids were supposed to lay around and look at the clouds. I'm serious as a heart attack when I say the poster, an A2Ker that had a young kid at that time responded "Oh, we schedule time for that."

Oh . . .





. . . of course.

Yeh. nd they have an almost derogatory term for kids who dont schedule when they go pottee. My kids were called "free range" and I was damn proud of em.

Could it be I was born a century too late?
How bout you?

On weekends, and in the summer time, my grandmother had work for us to do in the morning. We'd have lunch, and then she'd run us out of the house--saying that she wouldn't hold supper for us. We made it back on time.

How does a person schedule time for cloud watching or other moments of fun? Sounds frightening.

Parent: " Okay, Suzette, you've finished your required coloring book time, now go out and lie down on the lawn and gaze at the clouds for fifteen minutes. "

Suzette: "Do I have to mom?"


Parent: "It's required so you can destress before your required playing with the cat, which we scheduled for 4:15."

I want to know what makes Caroline Williams, the person who wrote those tips on focusing, qualified to tell us what qualifies as a hobby and what doesn't.

Well TV doesn't count, that's too passive. Thanks for letting us know something a person may enjoy and which destresses them doesn't make the grade.

I wonder how much money she made for writing this tripe.

Doesn't it?

Like scheduling time at least twice a week, or 10 minutes every other day, to do meditation or some "moving meditation" activity.

Good to know I'm not going for a walk or a swim, but engaging in "moving meditation" That's so much productive.

Seems some people wouldn't know how to wipe their ass without an instruction manual.

Start.

Post Squirrel Song at one quarter past the hour.

Take 5 minute break.

Collect nuts.

Meditate about new hobby.

Concentrate orange.

Loop to start.

What do you have against squirrels?


I want more squirrels on the brain.

How do I sign up to get my brain pinged! Sounds like fun.

That potful makes me hungry for a nice Brunswick Stew with soe collard greens on the side, and a big hunk a corn bread

Yeah, squirrels love corn bread

did not know tht. Ive always considered squirrels to be a food group, not a companion at lunch.

It's a floor wax!
It's a desert topping!

It's Both!

Like the cat and the cream.