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Just published: Martha Treat #207
Reverence and Joy for Doing
I was listening to an interview and the person started talking about Marie Kondo and how her work has changed his life. His focus was on letting go of things. As I listened, I was reminded of my first view of Marie bowing as she enters her home or a client’s home. That kind of reverence got my attention. She carries that reverence through all her work.
I often hear myself saying to a client that no one loves processing an email inbox. Yet the feeling that comes with having an empty inbox becomes an incentive to do it.
What if I started a new approach to processing that begins with reverence? Maybe I don’t bow to the inbox, but I could take a moment, close my eyes and shift to a place of receiving reverence and gratitude and sending it forward to what I am about to do. While I may not like or want what is showing up in my world, a state of reverence in my consciousness can shift the processing of an inbox to a neutral position.
And what about Joy! Years ago, a client of mine who had a significant backlog of paper and emails decided the only way she could get through the daunting stacks was to pick up each item as if it was a gift for her (in her case Christmas). I watched the joy she was experiencing using this approach and that enthusiasm carried her through what seemed an insurmountable task. For me, Joy is also a deep inner contentment as I suspect it may be for Marie Kondo as well.
A combination of joy and reverence seems to me a great way to approach all that needs handling. Inviting both reverence and joy forward can balance any frustration into neutrality and bring contentment.
I certainly have my moments of—REALLY, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?—as I look at emails, tasks or texts. I also know the power of any amount of negativity on my health and well-being. And that is incentive enough to make a shift.
We all deserve to be treated with reverence and joy and we can start very simply by receiving our own reverence and joy before we begin anything.
Martha Invitations
1. Try a new practice of how you start your day. Before you open your email inbox, take a moment and connect to the part of you that has reverence for you.
2. Read your email as a game and make it fun.
3. Give the reverent part of you a chance to participate in your day.
Martha
virginia@msia.org
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Just published: Martha Treat #207
Reverence and Joy for Doing
I was listening to an interview and the person started talking about Marie Kondo and how her work has changed his life. His focus was on letting go of things. As I listened, I was reminded of my first view of Marie bowing as she enters her home or a client’s home. That kind of reverence got my attention. She carries that reverence through all her work.
I often hear myself saying to a client that no one loves processing an email inbox. Yet the feeling that comes with having an empty inbox becomes an incentive to do it.
What if I started a new approach to processing that begins with reverence? Maybe I don’t bow to the inbox, but I could take a moment, close my eyes and shift to a place of receiving reverence and gratitude and sending it forward to what I am about to do. While I may not like or want what is showing up in my world, a state of reverence in my consciousness can shift the processing of an inbox to a neutral position.
And what about Joy! Years ago, a client of mine who had a significant backlog of paper and emails decided the only way she could get through the daunting stacks was to pick up each item as if it was a gift for her (in her case Christmas). I watched the joy she was experiencing using this approach and that enthusiasm carried her through what seemed an insurmountable task. For me, Joy is also a deep inner contentment as I suspect it may be for Marie Kondo as well.
A combination of joy and reverence seems to me a great way to approach all that needs handling. Inviting both reverence and joy forward can balance any frustration into neutrality and bring contentment.
I certainly have my moments of—REALLY, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?—as I look at emails, tasks or texts. I also know the power of any amount of negativity on my health and well-being. And that is incentive enough to make a shift.
We all deserve to be treated with reverence and joy and we can start very simply by receiving our own reverence and joy before we begin anything.
Martha Invitations
1. Try a new practice of how you start your day. Before you open your email inbox, take a moment and connect to the part of you that has reverence for you.
2. Read your email as a game and make it fun.
3. Give the reverent part of you a chance to participate in your day.
Martha
virginia@msia.org
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2019
Treat #206 Choosing vs Auto Pilot
Treat #205 Defaulting to the One-Track Focus Treat #204 Elegant and On Purpose Treat #203 The Fullness in Minimal Treat #202 The Real Culprit of Focus Drain Treat #201 Resting in Action Treat #200 Loving the Empty Spaces Treat #199 Putting Together All The Pieces Treat #198 Are you at the Top of your To Do List? |
2018
Treat #197 The Tiny Finishings
Treat #196 Emergency,Crisis,Fire Treat #195 Mastership Treat #194 It Works Every Time Treat #193 Let the Stuffing Be Gone Treat #192 Whole Focus Treat #191 The One Thing Not to Complete Treat #190 Just Keep It Flowing Treat #189 In Between Time Treat #188 What is Stealing Your Energy? Treat #187 To Skim or Not to Skim Treat #186 I Love January |
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2017
Treat #185 Both Hands Please
Treat #184 I'll Remember Treat #183 Creating New Doing Paths Treat #182 A Habit Worth Quitting Treat #181 Eclipse of Action Treat #180 Forgive Me for Multitasking Treat #179 What are You Looking At? Treat #178 Are you Squishing Snails? Treat #177 Relaxing the Grip Treat #176 All the Time in the World Treat #175 When is Enough . . . Enough Treat #174 Engaging Yourself to Completion |
2016
Treat #173 A Kink in the Works
Treat #172 What's Stopping You? Treat #171 All of Ours to Do Treat #170 Attitude Adjustment Treat #169 IN Consciousness Treat #168 Completing Past our Reactions Treat #167 Keep Your Dog Leash Treat #166 The Essential Piece Treat #165 Day is Done Treat #164 Do-Nothing Time Treat #163 Curbside Calm Treat #162 Pile-Up |
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2014:
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Treat #161 Gentle Doing
Treat #160 Freedom in the Discipline Treat #159 Finding New Routes Treat #158 Keeping the Awe Alive Treat #157 "Finishiative" Treat #156 The Exquisite Sound of the Moment Treat #155 Up-to-the-minute Treat #154 Uninviting Interruptions Treat #153 What's bugging you Treat #152 Competing Attention Treat #151 Our Inner Awareness Treat #150 Spontaneously Fresh and Alive |
Treat #149 Without the Push
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2013:
Treat #137 Well Done
Treat #136 Moving from all-at-once to one-at-a-time
Treat #135 All the Way Through to Completion
Treat #134 Out of Control Into Freedom
Treat #133 The Present Processor
Treat #136 Moving from all-at-once to one-at-a-time
Treat #135 All the Way Through to Completion
Treat #134 Out of Control Into Freedom
Treat #133 The Present Processor