Day #703 - Too Busy, Too Small
The things we forget or avoid
The beautiful weather over the weekend reminded me that it’s time to prune the roses. Not that I will actually get around to it: two years out of three I forget until it’s too late.
It’s not that I want to, simply that other - more important - things get in the way. What are they? Well naturally, they are whatever I am managing to prevaricate or focus on at this exact moment in time, to ensure that everyone knows how busy I am.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider a single, simple, small thing, that you maybe neglect more often than not, because you are too busy.
It could be anything: returning a WhatsApp message to an old friend, sending a card, signing something off, returning a library book, searching around for cheaper insurance, tidying out the bottom drawer in the kitchen, sorting through your shoes, or making flapjacks.
Or maybe it’s something else: saying ‘thank you’, offering to listen, creating a space or an opportunity, giving feedback, hearing a different idea, sharing something important, offering challenge, or being kind.
Many of the most important things are held in the smallest of actions, but sometimes we are so busy on the big and loud things that we forget to do them at all.
