Savour
Your To-Do list is long.
You have one day left to wrap up the week.
You also have overestimated your capacity once again.
The fact that you are in your email reading this, right now, tells you two things.
First, your mind is oriented towards reading the emails and chipping away at the To-Do list.
Second, your intuition knows that taking a moment to savour something that is not necessarily “checkable” on that list is valuable.
You can consider it the cat principle.
At the exact moment you are ready to get up and get going, a cat will find its way onto your lap and start purring.
You can brush it off or you can savour it for a few minutes.
The To Do list will remain.
Taking a moment to savour what is immediately in front of you will not set you nearly as far behind as the other random distractions in your day.
On the other hand, that moment of savouring allows your brain to slow down and catch up to the present moment.
Savour your morning cup of coffee right now.
A moment of calm focus correlates with greater cognitive control in minimizing subsequent distraction.
It might be the very thing you need to set you up for tackling the To Do list with less distraction.
Coffee is a rebirth,
- Morning Cup