I have my Buddha quote right behind my screen, so when I am feeling impatient I look at it and it reminds me to concentrate my mind on the present moment, then i can start feeling a bit antsy after toiling online for a while and get agitated, but one look at the sign on the wall reminds me to calm down and relax.
- All we have is now, but a lot of people are always in the future or the past with their minds and not in the present moment where they should be, then the old lady at the cooling and heating corporation store was always telling me that I need to learn to relax, and toiling on my HVAC tech writing just reinforces her wisdom.
I am always trying to stay in the present but it isn’t always so self-explanatory to do. My mind will start thinking about my fireplace and how it needs to be cleaned out, or it’ll float off and start thinking about how dirty my ductwork is and how it needs to be cleaned. So I am consistently trying to get my mind back to the present because it loves to go to other places all the time. Like the HEPA filter worker told me, if you spend all your time in the past or future you won’t even remember your life in the end. This makes sense and so I try to be here as much as possible and not daydream about the future or past, and anyway, maybe now I’ll go look at the ducts and see if my HVAC system needs cleaning… See you in the future!