What do you fill your time with? I talk with people all the time and sometimes that question gets asked. What do we fill our days with as we show up? It has been said that our ego mind can come up with thousands of excuses about what we do with our time. This comes from one who has a confession. I spend at least one hour each and every day playing computer games of logic. It is a program to keep my mind sharp and honed.
The truth is that if I stop and look at my checkbook, credit card, and daytimer I have the answer what I do every day. It shows me where I spend my money and my time.
One of the most insidious inventions of the world is the television. When I was a wee lad in 1949 and 1950 my dad got us a television set. I was the only child at the time and my mother had mother tasks to do in the house. So she would prop me up on the couch with pillows on each side so I wouldn't fall right over - then she would turn on the television. It was the perfect babysitter. This is how I learned to read.
It also set up a mind program addiction for me. Put me in front of a television and my mind turns off and lets the garbage in. I can waste hours in front of a TV watching anything. This ranges from Perry Mason reruns to a nature episode about small scorpions in the African desert.
I actually came to a point where I treated my television watching as an addiction and turned off the TV. During my second marriage, I ended up with four step kids. When we got married I sold the family television and we had none in our home. We played games together, did family nights, and actually talked to each other. But the universe hates that kind of a vacuum. Three times in the first eighteen months of the marriage people felt sorry for us (No television? How awful!) and gave us televisions. I would keep giving them away until the next one arrived. Finally I gave up.
So now I am at the back end of my life. I fill my time with actions designed to keep spirit in my life; to promote self-car; and to connect and build bridges in my daily life. So suddenly words like 'balance' and 'spirit' and 'growth' are very important.
Thus what is it that you fill your time with? What is the reason you get out of bed in the morning? What drives you through the day? Exploring this set of questions will keep you moving. You will recognize right away when you are spiritually discontent. It is so important to look at these parts of how you show up.
My wife edits my blogs prior to posting. She mentioned in one of her notes on a blog that it is interesting how often the word "authentic" comes up in our life. It is our signature of how we show up. Just as a musician is known by hisi music and a cabinetmaker is known for his woodwork we are each known by how we show up in our realness - not the mask we make think we carry around with us. What we don't realize is that our mask is transparent and everyone sees who we are.
Finally just for the fun of it I throw in a wonderful poster I found. It shows a duck. The caption reads "When God created ducks, He said, "waterproof that chicken and give it a kazoo!" Picture that and try not to laugh. Shades of Mel Blanc (the voice of Daffy Duck in the cartoons).
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