940 Minutes

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February 16, 2022

940 minutes. That’s how long the average person stays awake each day.  A waking mind requires 30 minutes to kick start your heart. Having a cleared process cannot carry the weight of last night’s dreams.  We allow the little things to get in the way.  We tend to invest more in creating excuses then we do in physical actions.  I’m totally guilty of allowing the hands of the clock serve as a borderline.  We give ourselves only so many minutes to complete a project.  To which I ask, “Is this the result of the Covid 19 lockdown?”  I remember recreating the rules to keep the human system from getting messed up with anxiety.  I could only watch so much news, we binge watched only one show.  We created windows to keep the process moving.  940 minutes of awake hours.  When we do get sleep, the dreams don’t live up to the expectation.  If it were a bad movie we may get our money back!  Whomever or whatever is planting those moving pictures into the subconscious isn’t being fair.  Those 940 awake minutes stretch to 960 then 970.  How do you regain control?  We’ve always been told to think positive.  Not so true.  One of the greatest motivators has a different walk.  Tony Robbins says in his new book that positive thinking is B.S.  If you see weeds in your flower garden the power of positive thinking won’t remove them.  You have to physically become part of the picking.  Facing a bad dream means calling it out.  If there’s a mountain in your way, remove it.  Positive thinking has lost its biggest guru.  My method of madness is mindfulness.  The awareness of Now.  Present.  Which according to Doris Kearns Goodwin says was Abraham Lincoln’s secret to success.  A man of great depression and other mental hard times kept it together due to knowing where he was.  In the Now.