how to enjoy

summary

There can often be the overwhelm in a day to day. how to slow down and take it in.

(0) apply anti pressure against deck clearing impulses . Oliver Burkeman in his Hours book describes this antipattern well [1]

There will be fires. people will nag you. Also your friendly co workers will ping you .

There will be lots of Quadrant 4 stuff hollering at you

And pinky promise police finger wagging .

Dont give in.

Your daily frog . Your daily highlight must be first.

(1) focus on the good stuff, looking forward to. Kind of like a metta meditation around the stuff i am looking forward to , a given next day or given next week.
(2) in particular how good it would feel to accomplish it. Intrinsic, extrinsic . Eyes on the prize . video tape in our mind. The Michael Phelps technique .
(3) the intrusive thoughts will try to invade. wave to them . no thanks. waste of energy.

Marcus Aurelius talks of this in Meditations [3] so it is age old wisdom.